"Stacy Schiff has beautifully combined remarkable story telling with historical accuracy and insight. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Quartet " 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. This is a superb book."- David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wright Brothers Few writers combine as she does superb scholarship and an exceptional gift for language with amazing reach and agility of mind. "History in the hands of Stacy Schiff is invariably full of life, light, shadow, surprise, clarity of insight, and so it is again and then some in her latest work, The Witches. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.Īs 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. 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. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
0 kommentar(er)
