The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. VIII (in 12 Volumes) - Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of American culture and public life.Legendary as a speaker-he memorized his speeches and could talk for hours without notes-and as a proponent of freethought,..