She never lacks for an apt detail, drawing on academic studies that focus on everything from the region's sexual mores to the way sounds echoed in the atmosphere.- Ruth Franklin, Harper's reconstructs the time and place in remarkable detail, offering portraits of the protagonists in all their poignant, if often infuriating, humanity.
In an age when superstition remains a vibrant and dangerous force, her book is, alas, also relevant.- Russell Shorto, author of The Island at the Center of the World fresh take on the Salem witch trials.- Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Boston Globe must-read.- Joanna Coles, Cosmopolitan brings her gifts to the confusions of Salem, piecing together a dramatic narrative from disparate and often tersely unrevealing sources, including diaries, memoirs, and court reports. Stacy Schiff brilliantly teases apart the strands of myth and history. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet The Witches is a vivid investigation of the original American nightmare. Review Quotes The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.- Joseph J. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story - the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.
Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. Book Synopsis The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
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