{"product_id":"9781590175804","title":"The Stammering Century","description":"By: Gilbert Seldes     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilbert Seldes, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stammering Century\u003c\/i\u003e, writes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46395778564323,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781590175804","price":147.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781590175804.jpg?v=1748304509","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9781590175804","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}