{"product_id":"the-stammering-century-9781590175804","title":"The Stammering Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eGilbert Seldes, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stammering Century\u003c\/i\u003e, writes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during \u003cbr\u003e the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the \u003cbr\u003e cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, \u003cbr\u003e and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements \u003cbr\u003e and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a \u003cbr\u003e background in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pente­costalists; \u003cbr\u003e the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors \u003cbr\u003e and the Fundamen­talists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and \u003cbr\u003e possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious \u003cbr\u003e excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to the \u003cbr\u003e orderly progress of America are the subject. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Stammering Century\u003c\/i\u003e not only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590175804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.95d","brand":"Gilbert Seldes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45169449992373,"sku":"9781590175804","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d85c3a47-431a-42f2-943f-8a905a438e16.jpg?v=1741703138","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-stammering-century-9781590175804","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}