| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793–1865. By Glendyne R. Wergland. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xviii, 247 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-523-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-522-3.)

In this meticulous study, Glendyne R. Wergland chronicles the life of a man who witnessed Shakerism from its first coalescence into communal groups in the eighteenth century to the troubling waves of apostasy in the mid-nineteenth century that signaled the start of a precipitous decline. Wergland's work offers a micro view of the lived experience of Shakerism, examining in detail this one, fascinating Shaker life. Her work is a welcome addition to the very limited collection of scholarly Shaker biographies, among them, Jean M. Humez's work on Rebecca Jackson (Gifts of Power, 1981), Jerry Grant and Douglas Allen's collection, Shaker Furniture Makers (1989), and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe's Shaking the Faith (2002) on the Shaker apostate Mary Marshall Dyer.

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