Description: Ultimately, the book is a story of Jacksonian America, of how democracy can fail religious freedom, and a case study in popular politics as America entered a great age of religion and violence.
Brief description: Adam Jortner (AUBURN, AL) is the Goodwin-Philpott Professor of History at Auburn University. He is the author of The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier and the Audible lecture series Faith and the Founding Fathers.
Review Quotes: [Jortner] is one of our finest interpreters of the supernatural in the first decades of the nineteenth century.
--Amy S. Greenberg, Mormon Studies Review