Description: Jortner breaks new ground in explaining the rise of radical religion in antebellum America, revisiting questions of disenchantment, modernity, and religious belief in a history of astounding events that--as early Americans would have said--needed to be seen to be believed.
Review Quotes:
Outstanding. Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner's new book on miracles in the early republic, is a rare event itself: an important study about a neglected topic that remains compulsively readable from beginning to end. Jortner marshals considerable evidence that the Age of Reason was not as reasonable as we'd like to believe. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand Jeffersonian America--or our republic today.
--Donna Thorland, author of The Turncoat