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Figure Heads

"Figure Heads." New-York Saturday Press. 27 Oct. 1860: 2.
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Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
commentary
Abstract: 

A criticism of figure heads and the shallow hypocrisy of the title. The writer holds up genuine authors of brilliance as men who should be revered, not those who hold a position.

People Mentioned in this Work

Emerson, Ralph
Ward, Artemus
Whitman, Walt

MENTIONED IN - Figure Heads

Ward, Artemus

Born in small-town New England, Charles Browne began his career as a young contributor to the Boston Carpet Bag, a humor magazine, and later at Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer he adopted

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