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Renehan, Edward John was born on August 7, 1956 in New York City. Son of Edward John Renehan and Joan Margaret Salvesen.
(John Burroughs (1837-1921) emerged from an obscure boyhoo...)
John Burroughs (1837-1921) emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day.
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Most Americans know that John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia - a raid he believed would ignite a bloody slave revolution - was one of the events that sparked the Civil War. But very few know the story of how Brown was covertly aided by a circle of prosperous and privileged Northeasterners who supplied him with money and weapons, and, before the raid, even hid him in their homes while authorities sought Brown on a murder charge. These men called themselves the Secret Six. The Secret Six included Thomas Wentworth Higginson, minister, author, and editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Samuel Howe, world-famous physician; Theodore Parker, the Unitarian minister whose rhetoric helped shape Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Franklin Sanborn, an educator and close friend of Emerson and Thoreau; and the immensely wealthy Gerrit Smith and George Luther Stearns. The existence of the Six has been known to scholars, but there has never been a book devoted to them. Now, drawing on archives from Boston to Kansas, Edward J. Renehan, Jr., has created a vivid portrait of this unlikely cabal, showing how six pillars of the establishment came to believe that armed conflict was necessary in order to purge the United States of a government-sanctioned evil, slavery. The messianic zealot Brown - also portrayed - streaked across their path like a meteor. Renehan traces how the Six became involved with Brown, and how their lives were forever changed by the events at Harpers Ferry and the war they helped to start.
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Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation-- and one of the inventors of modern business.
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Renehan, Edward John was born on August 7, 1956 in New York City. Son of Edward John Renehan and Joan Margaret Salvesen.
Bachelor in Political Science, State University of New York, New Paltz, 1980.
Director, Computer Publishing Programs Newbridge Communications, Macmillan Book Clubs, 1987—1994. Public consultant, author, 1994—2010. Managing director New St. Communications, LLC, since 2010.
(John Burroughs (1837-1921) emerged from an obscure boyhoo...)
(Most Americans know that John Brown's raid on Harpers Fer...)
( Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's...)
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Director Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, Warwick, 2000-2005. Delegate Rhode Island Conservation Committee, 2000-2005. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Arts Club, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc.
(director 1976-1980), Boston Atheneaum, Pi Sigma Alpha.
Married Christa Elizabeth Bartkovick, August 24, 1985. Children: William James, Katherine Eleanor.