Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2, credited to Robert G. Ingersoll, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2 by Robert G. Ingersoll. Read in English by Claudia Salto; Michele Fry; Edward Kirkby; J. Alan Brown; Joseph Tabler; Roger Melin; Herman Roskams; Kristin Gjerløw; Scott Danneker A controversial lecturer and famous orator of the mid 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of orthodox Christianity, tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family, children, and human liberty, whose creed was: “Happiness is the only good, Reason the only torch, Justice the only worship, Humanity the only religion, and Love the only priest.” He was often attacked from the pulpit and in the press. Here are 30 more published interviews (from among hundreds), in which Ingersoll spoke extemporaneously, bitingly, sometimes hilariously, on a wide range of topics, with newspaper reporters of the day. (Compiled from The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 8, Dresden Edition, Pub. 1900. Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2
• Author credits: Robert G. Ingersoll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 6:41:20

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• faith
• dramatic reading
• sermons
• abolition
• lectures
• superstition

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Guiteau and his Crime — 20:06
2. 02 - Star Route and Politics — 17:52
3. 03 - Politics and Prohibition — 7:46
4. 04 - The Civil Rights Bill — 6:48
5. 05 - Cuba - Zola and Theosophy — 7:02
6. 06 - Capital Punishment and the Whipping Post — 4:51
7. 07 - Expansion and Trusts — 5:45
8. 08 - Politics and General Grant — 12:45
9. 09 - Justice Harlan and the Civil Rights Bill — 17:04
10. 10 - Ingersoll Catechised — 23:59
11. 11 - The Labor Question — 4:22
12. 12 - Henry George and Socialism — 10:39
13. 13 - Ingersoll on McGlynn — 17:42
14. 14 - Trial of the Chicago Anarchists — 12:14
15. 15 - The Stage and the Pulpit — 20:06
16. 16 - Protection and Free Trade — 17:33
17. 17 - Labor, and Tariff Reform — 20:35
18. 18 - James G. Blaine and Politics — 7:52
19. 19 - Society and its Criminals — 32:14
20. 20 - Woma's Right to Divorce — 15:21
21. 21 - Music, Newspapers, Lynching and Arbitration — 14:03
22. 22 - Prohibition — 21:06
23. 23 - Working Girls — 14:28
24. 24 - Protection For American Actors — 19:02

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