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Title: The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Author: Stacy Schiff
ISBN: 9780316200592
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2016
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 512
Condition: Used Copy
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. “The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The QuartetIt began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff’s account of this fantastical story–the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.”Once again Stacy Schiff dazzles us. The Witches is a must read for anyone intrigued by this baffling and horrifying chapter from America’s Puritan past. What Schiff uncovers is mesmerizing and shocking. Her meticulous research and lyrical writing lay bare an injustice that we should never forget-lest we repeat it.” ―
Patricia Cornwell, author of True Crime and the Scarpetta novels
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