When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher.
O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer--a gaunt Scottish orator who appeared in.
The Strange Genius of Mr.
And then, like so many meteoric American luminaries afterward, he fell from grace.
O, counting the nation\'s leading politicians and intellectuals among his admirers.
By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide Celebrity known simply as Mr.
When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher