| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Mrs. Stanton's Bible. By Kathi Kern. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. xi, 288 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3191-3.)

At a time when hagiography is the crowning mark of biography—evidenced by the reception of David McCullough's 2001 John Adams and augmented by a political campaign to raise a stone monument to this all but forgotten founder—Kathi Kern reminds us of the true value of biography. Critical yet admiring of her subject, Kern is Elizabeth Cady Stanton's John Boswell. Until now, no scholar has captured the complexity of Stanton's political and intellectual life. In this entertaining, well-written study, Kern demonstrates why the 1895 Woman's Bible is crucial to understanding Stanton's feminism. After reading this book, it will be impossible for any historian to sidestep religious radicalism as the pivotal element in Stanton's gendered vision of the church, state, and family. . . .

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