Talking To The Dead: Kate And Maggie Fox And The Rise Of Spiritualism - Softcover

Weisberg, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006075060X ISBN 13: 9780060750602

Verlag: HarperOne, 2005

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"Whether you are a sucker for the supernatural or a rabid non-believer, this book is compelling...."----Michael Lutin, Vanity Fair Planetarium Astrologer

"A fascinating exploration of the mysteries of mortality and faith..... A most readable and instructive story."----Frederic Morton, author of A Perfect Splendor - Vienna 1888/9 and The Rothschilds

"Weisberg goes beyond stereotypes...A revealing look at the history of spiritualism and its place in nineteenth-century culture.--Booklist

"[A] well-researched...insightful look at the social climate of the 19th century....makes for fascinating reading."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"[P]rovides admirable social context for the girls' misadventures as mediums....also conveys a vivid sense of their personalities."--Los Angeles Times

"Weisberg illustrates that this seemingly simple account of fakery and gullibility is in fact mesmerizingly complex . . . ."--Washington Post Book World

"Weisberg has given us a story of enduring human emotions."----Edmund Blair Bolles, author of The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age

"Engrossing and poignant...a fascinating read, both for scholars and the general reading public."--Patricia Cline Cohen, author of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York.

"Barbara Weisberg raises the specter of two winsome adolescent sisters who convinced America they were Talking to the Dead."--Vanity Fair

"Weisberg writes with clarity and intelligence...This book tells us a lot about our own relationship with death and dying."----Alec Baldwin

Reseña del editor

Follows the story of the Fox sisters, whose reports about strange noises in their mid-nineteenth-century home and subsequent claims that they could talk with ghosts gave rise to contemporary séance practices and modern beliefs about spiritualism. Reprint.

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• Verlag: HarperOne
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 006075060X
• ISBN 13: 9780060750602
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336