The Stammering Century Gilbert Seldes by Gilbert Seldes 9781590175958, 1590175956 instant download after payment.

Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:
This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during
the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the
cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals,
and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements
and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a back-
ground in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pente­costalists;
the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors
and the Fundamen­talists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and
possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious
excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to
the orderly progress of America are the subject.
The subject...