| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. By Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. xii, 388 pp. $26.95, ISBN 0-674-01020-5.)

With this book, Irene Quenzler Brown and Richard D. Brown join an immensely successful set of early American historians who have cast their lot with the storytelling power of our discipline. Following in the wake of Laurel Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale (1990), John Demos's The Unredeemed Captive (1994), and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town (1995), they have found an early American story that, with painstaking research, can help us to see truths about that world that are not otherwise visible, even from atop a mountain of more social-science-oriented data.

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