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<br> The book reads much like a novel....The authors relate this offbeat tale like the good storytellers they are, sqeezing the story out of a number of sources in a creative and imaginative way. --Journal of Social History<br><br><p><br> A history book that reads like a novel of suspense and intrique...it affords us a rare glimpse into a much-misunderstood time. --WORLD<br><br><p><br> Johnson and Wilentz successfully anchor their narrative in the religious and economic history of the early nineteenth century. --American Historical Review<br><br><p><br> The story is an inherently engrossing one, and its retelling will be of direct value to scholars of the history of communitarianism and of alternative religions. The scholarship here...is impressive; the authors have come up with remarkable detailed sources for a story so seemingly marginal and so long past. But even more impressive is their ability to tell an engrossing story in language at once scholarly and as compelling as that of a good novel. --Utopian Studies<br><br><p><br> This interesting and informative examination of an early religious cult will be a definite asset for anyone doing research on the history of cults. --KLIATT, November 1995<br><br><p><br>

The book reads much like a novel....The authors relate this offbeat tale like the good storytellers they are, sqeezing the story out of a number of sources in a creative and imaginative way. --Journal of Social History A history book that reads like a novel of suspense and intrique...it affords us a rare glimpse into a much-misunderstood time. --WORLD Johnson and Wilentz successfully anchor their narrative in the religious and economic history of the early nineteenth century. --American Historical Review The story is an inherently engrossing one, and its retelling will be of direct value to scholars of the history of communitarianism and of alternative religions. The scholarship here...is impressive; the authors have come up with remarkable detailed sources for a story so seemingly marginal and so long past. But even more impressive is their ability to tell an engrossing story in language at once scholarly and as compelling as that of a good novel. --Utopian Studies This interesting and informative examination of an early religious cult will be a definite asset for anyone doing research on the history of cults. --KLIATT, November 1995

<br> The book reads much like a novel....The authors relate this offbeat tale like the good storytellers they are, sqeezing the story out of a number of sources in a creative and imaginative way. --Journal of Social History<p><br> A history book that reads like a novel of suspense and intrique...it affords us a rare glimpse into a much-misunderstood time. --WORLD<p><br> Johnson and Wilentz successfully anchor their narrative in the religious and economic history of the early nineteenth century. --American Historical Review<p><br> The story is an inherently engrossing one, and its retelling will be of direct value to scholars of the history of communitarianism and of alternative religions. The scholarship here...is impressive; the authors have come up with remarkable detailed sources for a story so seemingly marginal and so long past. But even more impressive is their ability to tell an engrossing story in language at once scholarly and as compelling as that of a good novel. --Utopian S

<br> The book reads much like a novel....The authors relate this offbeat tale like the good storytellers they are, sqeezing the story out of a number of sources in a creative and imaginative way. --Journal of Social History<p><br>.. .A history book that reads like a novel of suspense and intrique...it affords us a rare glimpse into a much-misunderstood time. --WORLD<p><br> Johnson and Wilentz successfully anchor their narrative in the religious and economic history of the early nineteenth century. --American Historical Review<p><br> The story is an inherently engrossing one, and its retelling will be of direct value to scholars of the history of communitarianism and of alternative religions. The scholarship here...is impressive; the authors have come up with remarkable detailed sources for a story so seemingly marginal and so long past. But even more impressive is their ability to tell an engrossing story in language at once scholarly and as compelling as that of a good novel. --Utopia

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Paul E. Johnson is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina and is the author of numerous books, including Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper and A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837. Sean Wilentz is George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University. He is the author of Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1950 and The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, among other titles.

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