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Books November 2014

Quaker book reviews

Staff

Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more…

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Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

By Gary B. Nash. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 352 pages. $34.95/hardcover or eBook. Thorough books have been produced in…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778

By Norman E. Donoghue II. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $44.95/hardcover; $35.99/eBook. Societal pressures caused by war…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement / Quakers and Abolition

Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement: By Brian Temple. McFarland & Company Inc., 2014. 240 pages. $39.95/paperback; $24.99/eBook.   Quakers…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution

By Sarah Crabtree. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 270 pages. $45/hardcover; $10/eBook loan. In the heady early days of Quakerism,…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter