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Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and a true pleasure to read. -Sarah Crabtree, San Francisco State University In this magnificent dual biography, Richard Godbeer brings us to the hearth of Quakers Elizabeth and Henry Drinker, offering an intimate and beautifully textured account of the lives of these religious and political dissenters during the American Revolution. In Godbeer's hands, their often-heartrending story is also quintessentially American. -Jane E. Calvert, University of Kentucky With skill and insight Richard Godbeer's World of Trouble follows a Quaker family as it navigates Pennsylvania's chaotic path to independence and the turbulent decades that follow. -Elaine Forman Crane, editor of The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker World of Trouble reconstructs with impressive sensitivity the struggle of a Quaker family to maintain core religious principles during a time when American Revolutionaries regarded dissent as a threat to independence. -T. H. Breen, author of The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

Describe[s] in illuminating detail the sometimes dramatic experiences of this Quaker family, living in a major colonial city during a time of rebellion and feeling incessant pressure to modify their religious convictions for the sake of the patriot cause. . . . Well-written and fascinating. -Robert K. Landers, Wall Street Journal Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and a true pleasure to read. -Sarah Crabtree, San Francisco State University In this magnificent dual biography, Richard Godbeer brings us to the hearth of Quakers Elizabeth and Henry Drinker, offering an intimate and beautifully textured account of the lives of these religious and political dissenters during the American Revolution. In Godbeer's hands, their often-heartrending story is also quintessentially American. -Jane E. Calvert, University of Kentucky With skill and insight Richard Godbeer's World of Trouble follows a Quaker family as it navigates Pennsylvania's chaotic path to independence and the turbulent decades that follow. -Elaine Forman Crane, editor of The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker World of Trouble reconstructs with impressive sensitivity the struggle of a Quaker family to maintain core religious principles during a time when American Revolutionaries regarded dissent as a threat to independence. -T. H. Breen, author of The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

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Richard Godbeer is Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities and Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is a leading scholar of early American history whose previous books include Sexual Revolution in Early America and Escaping Salem.

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