| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.1

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Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. By Richard Newman. (New York: New York University Press, 2008). xiii, 359 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

In the preface to his book, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, Richard Newman recounts a conversation with his editor in which she asked, "why can't biographers just let go of their subjects?!" (ix). It is very clear that Newman struggled with this dilemma. His refusal to "let go" has produced a monumental contribution to the discipline of early American history and, perhaps, one of the very best biographies concerned with that era.

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