The Eloquence of Edward Everett: America's Greatest Orator First edition by Richard A. Katula (2009) Paperback

Edward Everett was America's first Ph.D, a United States Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Ambassador to England, President of Harvard University, United States Senator, and Vice-Presidential candidate. In the midst of this extraordinary career, he was also America's most celebrated orator, the man who save Mt. Vernon as a national monument with the proceeds from one of his speeches, and who was the unanimous choice to deliver the main oration at the dedication of the national cemetary at Gettysburg on the day Lincoln delivered his monumental Gettysburg Address. Thjis book tells the remarkable story of America's most renowned speaker, an amazing tale of a great American.