Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2


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(3.5 stars; 6 reviews)

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

Proof-listening was done by both readers in each duet. (6 hr 41 min)

Chapitres

Guiteau and his Crime 20:06 Lu par Claudia Salto
Star Route and Politics 17:52 Lu par Michele Fry
Politics and Prohibition 7:46 Lu par Michele Fry
The Civil Rights Bill 6:48 Lu par Michele Fry
Cuba - Zola and Theosophy 7:02 Lu par Michele Fry
Capital Punishment and the Whipping Post 4:51 Lu par Michele Fry
Expansion and Trusts 5:45 Lu par Michele Fry
Politics and General Grant 12:45 Lu par Michele Fry
Justice Harlan and the Civil Rights Bill 17:04 Lu par Michele Fry
Ingersoll Catechised 23:59 Lu par Roger Melin
The Labor Question 4:22 Lu par Herman Roskams
Henry George and Socialism 10:39 Lu par Herman Roskams
Ingersoll on McGlynn 17:42 Lu par Michele Fry
Trial of the Chicago Anarchists 12:14 Lu par Michele Fry
The Stage and the Pulpit 20:06 Lu par Michele Fry
Protection and Free Trade 17:33 Lu par Michele Fry
Labor, and Tariff Reform 20:35 Lu par Kristin G.
James G. Blaine and Politics 7:52 Lu par Michele Fry
Society and its Criminals 32:14 Lu par Michele Fry
Woma's Right to Divorce 15:21 Lu par Kristin G.
Music, Newspapers, Lynching and Arbitration 14:03 Lu par Herman Roskams
Prohibition 21:06 Lu par Michele Fry
Working Girls 14:28 Lu par Kristin G.
Protection For American Actors 19:02 Lu par Michele Fry
Woman's Suffrage, Horse Racing, and Money 6:24 Lu par Kristin G.
Missionaries 3:07 Lu par Michele Fry
Word Painting and College Education 3:58 Lu par Michele Fry
Tolstoy and Literature 7:38 Lu par Kristin G.
The Church and the Stage 25:43 Lu par Herman Roskams
A Visit To Shaw's Garden 3:15 Lu par Michele Fry

Critiques


(1 stars)

Slavery was of course evil, guess what sir, the Catholic Church also had its abolitionists. Yeah, buddy. 1 Star ONLY for the reading.