Glendyne Wergland. One Shaker Life, Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865. Amherst. University of Massachusettts Press, 2006. xv + 247 pp. $24.95
Critical writing about the Shakers has become increasingly personal in scope. The earliest scholarship focused on the society's products rather than its people. Subsequent studies offered topographic views of Shakerdom or featured large subgroups of Believers (Shaker women, for example, or specific Shaker villages). Recently, the critical lens ...