| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution. By Susan Juster. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xii, 276 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3732-3.)

Susan Juster's discerning new study poses many questions for the reader, perhaps none so important as where her protagonists belong on the ever-shifting spectrum of politics in the age of revolution. Previous studies—among many, Norman Cohn's classic on Reformation Europe, Phyllis Mack's pathbreaking work on Quaker women, James West Davidson's and Ruth Bloch's studies of eighteenth-century millennialism, and Paul S. Boyer's bracing survey of American prophecy belief, When Time Shall Be No More (1992)—have positioned post-medieval visionaries in long revolutionary traditions. Prophets, after all, are generally ill at ease with the status quo and preach their truth to power: witness especially the Millerites and Mormons following the revolutionary era.

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