Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie
The Penguin Podcast
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The Ingersolls, I'm a Very Gentle Folk, You Know, I Wish I'd Written That Joke, I Mean, I Don't Want You to Stay in That Saloon Bar All the Time
Ingersoll was a person who was really compelling when he spoke. He could have been a stand-up comic, so you write very beautifully about him. His fascination with rhetoric and persuasive speech came from the Renaissance humanists how to speak elegantly or powerfully. Ingersoll lost his job as a school teacher in one place because he said baptism was a good thing if done quickly.
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