The saintly scoundrel : the life and times of Dr. John Cook Bennett
This is the first biography of one of this nation's most outrageous individuals, a man who was president of the medical departments of two universities and chancellor of two others, a member and officer of at least twenty different agricultural, medical, or social organizations, an itinerant minister in three different denominations, and a lobbyist who successfully ushered bills through legislatures in Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1997
collective biographies
xiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780252022821, 0252022823
34721478
Westward immigrants
The diploma peddler
The getter up of colleges
The tomato campaign
Vagabond interludes
Nauvoo : the saintly city
Smith's exposé of Bennett
Bennett's exposé of Smith
The lecture circuit
Ho for Voree : Bennett's Mormon encore
A fowl ending
In retrospect