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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060566671
ISBN-139780060566678
eBay Product ID (ePID)5933000
Product Key Features
Book TitleTalking to the Dead : Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicWomen, United States / 19th Century, General, Spiritualism, History
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorBarbara Weisberg
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-300285
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsWeisberg writes with clarity and intelligence...This book tells us a lot about our own relationship with death and dying., Weisberg illustrates that this seemingly simple account of fakery and gullibility is in fact mesmerizingly complex . . . ., Weisberg goes beyond stereotypes.A revealing look at the history of spiritualism and its place in nineteenth-century culture.|9780060566678|, [A] well-researched...insightful look at the social climate of the 19th century....makes for fascinating reading., Barbara Weisberg raises the specter of two winsome adolescent sisters who convinced America they were Talking to the Dead., .vividly brings alive one of America's most fascinating historical eras. This book is a fine read and an excellent reference., [P]rovides admirable social context for the girls' misadventures as mediums..also conveys a vivid sense of their personalities., A fascinating exploration of the mysteries of mortality and faith..... A most readable and instructive story.
Dewey Decimal133.9/1/0922 B
SynopsisMarch 1848. Mysterious knocks are heard in a little house in rural New York, throwing the community into turmoil. Are the children who live there -- Kate and Maggie Fox, sisters aged eleven and fourteen -- making the raps to trick their parents? Or are the girls mediums for otherworldly messages? From a battery of strange sounds and the excitement they create, modern Spiritualism is born. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism follows the remarkable story of the Fox sisters, who were catapulted to fame after word spread that they communicated with spirits. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to seances. An international movement developed. Yet forty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying that they had ever been in contact with the dead. Shortly after, in another stunning reversal, they changed their story again and reaffirmed their faith in the spirit world. Were the Fox sisters con artists who had taken a childhood prank too far? Or were they really in touch with "voices from beyond"? In this riveting biography, Barbara Weisberg traces not only the lives of Kate, Maggie, and their family -- including the girls' shrewd and charismatic sister, Leah -- but also the social, religious, economic, and political forces that helped shape the Spiritualist movement. A vivid, compelling overview of a remarkable period in U.S. history, Talking to the Dead provokes questions about belief systems, the power of celebrity, the wish to reconcile faith and science, and the timeless quest for knowledge about life after death.
LC Classification NumberBF1283.F7W45 2004
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- 26. Okt. 2016
An Excellent Portrayal of an Amazing Period
This is the first of Ms. Weisberg's work I have read. I must say she has organized and presented a powerful delivery within her book. Her skill in depicting the origins of Spiritualism and its literal explosion around the world is impressive. Sadly, too few know of what must have been one of the most intriguing and impactful periods of history. Here is their doorway into knowing what rapidly essentially became a religion that, as many today, included extraordinary charlatans. Yet their presentations were simply fantastic as witnessed as told of by their "clients", many of whom became fanatical followers. [From all this came the "Theosophical Society" founded in 1875 and still very much alive today.] In a way, the exposure of some fraudulent "practicioners of the faith" was disheartening in the same way learning the secrets of a good magician can sometimes be. I highly recommend this book. As well as highly entertaining, this is an important entry among the far too few works on this episodic era that is still very much with us.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
