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ISBN-10 :  1631492143 

ISBN-13 :  9781631492143

Author:  Adam Morris 

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A history with sweeping implications, American Messiahs challenges our previous misconceptions about “cult” leaders and their messianic power. Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.

American Messiahs False Prophets of a Damned Nation 1st table of contents:

One: Women in The Wilderness
1. The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson
2. The Universal Friends
3. The All-Friend in the City of Brotherly Love
4. New Jerusalem
5. Mother Ann
6. The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing
7. The Era of Manifestations
Two: The Chosen Vessel
8. America’s Best-Known Mystic
9. The Poughkeepsie Seer
10. The Fox Sisters
11. The Apostolic Circle
12. Poet in New York
13. The Brotherhood of the New Life
14. Salem-on-Erie
15. California Idyll
16. Paradise Lost
Three: The Great Cosmic Egg
17. A Messianic Meeting
18. Koresh, Shepherd of God
19. The New Age
20. Dr. Teed’s Benefactresses
21. Teed Goes Mental
22. The Koreshan Unity
23. Messiah on the Move
24. Another New Jerusalem
25. A Test of Immortality
Four: The Glo-Rays of God
26. Divine Transformations
27. The Messenger
28. Trouble in Paradise
29. The Harlem Kingdom
30. Promised Lands
31. Heaven Trembles
32. Righteous Government
33. Philadelphia
Five: Fall of The Sky God
34. Jim Jones
35. Divine Aspirations
36. The Minister Wanders
37. California Mystics
38. New Directions
39. Going Communal
40. Peoples Temple Hits the Road
41. Backlash
42. Jonestown

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