The Stammering Century Author:Gilbert Seldes Minor movements, cults, manias, fads, sects, and religious excitements in 19th Century America.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 Edwa... more »rds 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.
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One of the most perceptive and entertaining studies of the American spirit in the nineteenth century. —Richard Hofstadter« less