| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Ghosts of Futures Past: Spiritualism and the Cultural Politics of Nineteenth-Century America. By Molly McGarry. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 269 pp. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-520-25260-8.)

As if to San Juan Capistrano, historians return with regularity to the missions of American spiritualism and radical reform. Each topic has long been assumed to say something important about the other, and the result of so many writers focusing so intently for so long has been an increasingly rich bird's eye view, not only of a distinctive American religious practice but also of the shifting practices of gender and race, and of popular perceptions of science and medicine. Molly McGarry steers this literature in an exciting new direction with her intriguing new book, Ghosts of Futures Past.

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