{"product_id":"the-stammering-century-new-york-review-books-classics","title":"The Stammering Century (New York Review Books Classics)","description":"Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:\n\nThis book is not a record of the major events in American history during\nthe nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the\ncults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,\nand mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements\nand figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a\nbackground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists;\nthe diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors\nand the Fundamentalists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and\npossibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious\nexcitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to the\norderly progress of America are the subject.\n\nThe 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1590175808\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1590175808.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Seldes, Gilbert|Marcus, Greil\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41736221458490,"sku":"DBV.1590175808.G","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1590175808-0.jpg?v=1791608525","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-stammering-century-new-york-review-books-classics","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}