Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was an American lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, politician, and author, best remembered for his classic historical novel Ben-Hur.
With the help of a faithful family retainer and a generous Arab sheik, Ben-Hur is enabled to take part in a widely touted chariot race, where one of the other charioteers is the boyhood friend who connived to punish him for the accident and split his esta...[SEE MORE]