ISBN: 9781590175958

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:      This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during       the nineteenth century. It is concerned … More...

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:      This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during       the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the       cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,      and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements       and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a back-      ground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pente­costalists;       the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors       and the Fundamen­talists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and       possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious       excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to       the orderly progress of America are the subject.The subject is of course as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as when the book first appeared in 1928. Seldes’s fascinated and often sympathetic accounts of dreamers, rogues, frauds, sectarians, madmen, and geniuses from Jonathan Edwards to the messianic murderer Matthias have established The Stammering Century not only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > History of the Americas, New York Review Books<

ISBN: 9781590175958

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:      This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during       the nineteenth century. It is concerned … More...

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:      This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during       the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the       cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,      and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements       and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a back-      ground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pente­costalists;       the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors       and the Fundamen­talists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and       possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious       excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to       the orderly progress of America are the subject.The subject is of course as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as when the book first appeared in 1928. Seldes’s fascinated and often sympathetic accounts of dreamers, rogues, frauds, sectarians, madmen, and geniuses from Jonathan Edwards to the messianic murderer Matthias have established The Stammering Century not only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right.; EPUB; History & Transport > Humanities > Regional & national history > History of the Americas, New York Review Books<

2012, ISBN: 9781590175958

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eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, Gilbert Seldes, the author ofThe Stammering Century, writes: This book is not a record of the major events in American history during the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a back- ground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists; the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors and the Fundamentalists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to the orderly progress of America are the subject.The subject is of course as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as when the book first appeared in 1928. Seldes's fascinated and often sympathetic accounts of dreamers, rogues, frauds, sectarians, madmen, and geniuses from Jonathan Edwards to the messianic murderer Matthias have establishedThe Stammering Centurynot only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right. [PU: New York Review Books], Seiten: 452, New York Review Books, 2012<

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