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Written in spritely prose and permeated with a grave humor, this account of nineteenth-century spiritualism will be equally satisfying to the casual reader interested in a good story, and to the scholar seeking serious social history.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. The Rochester Rappings
  • 2. The Gotham Spirits
  • 3. The Medium and the Explorer
  • 4. The Boston Apparitions
  • 5. More Gotham Spirits
  • 6. Spirits in the Provinces
  • 7. The Wakemanites
  • 8. The Ghost in the Astor Library
  • 9. Congress and Spiritualism
  • 10. Lincoln and the Spirits
  • 11. Spirits in the Courts
  • 12. Spirits in the city of Brotherly Love
  • 13. Ghosts from Coast to Coast
  • 14. The Haunted Halls of Learning
  • 15. The Descent of the Medium into the Spirits’ World
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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    A Paperback / softback by Earl Wesley Fornell, Lowell Collins

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1964
      ISBN13: 9781477305973, 978-1477305973
      ISBN10: 1477305971
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written in spritely prose and permeated with a grave humor, this account of nineteenth-century spiritualism will be equally satisfying to the casual reader interested in a good story, and to the scholar seeking serious social history.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • Prologue
      • 1. The Rochester Rappings
      • 2. The Gotham Spirits
      • 3. The Medium and the Explorer
      • 4. The Boston Apparitions
      • 5. More Gotham Spirits
      • 6. Spirits in the Provinces
      • 7. The Wakemanites
      • 8. The Ghost in the Astor Library
      • 9. Congress and Spiritualism
      • 10. Lincoln and the Spirits
      • 11. Spirits in the Courts
      • 12. Spirits in the city of Brotherly Love
      • 13. Ghosts from Coast to Coast
      • 14. The Haunted Halls of Learning
      • 15. The Descent of the Medium into the Spirits’ World
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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