The Stammering Century av Gilbert Seldes

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<p>Gilbert Seldes, the author of <i>The Stammering Century</i>, writes:<br><br>    This book is not a record of the major events in Ameri­can history during <br>    the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the <br>    cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, <br>    and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements <br>    and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a <br>    background in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pente­costalists; <br>    the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors <br>    and the Fundamen­talists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and <br>    possibly the saints. Sects, cu