Her recreation of courtroom scenes is especially convincing one feels, almost palpably, their pulsating mix of words, actions, and-above all-emotion. Indeed, readers may experience her narrative as a virtual tour of the time and place. This enables her to provide deep, richly textured background for specific moments and situations.
Moreover, she has mastered the entire history of early New England. "Her research is impeccable no previous writer has scoured the documentary record to such great depth.
" beautiful retelling of one of our ugliest tales." Schiff is at her best, infusing a historical event with as much life, mystery, and tragedy of any novelist." Every page of The Witches is almost scandalously pleasurable." (4 Stars) It's unsettling, gripping stuff, rendered in the burnished sentences of a master prose stylist. Though the Stamford trials took place on a much smaller scale than the neighboring Salem trials, the fact that the mass hysteria of the “witch hunt” spread throughout New England in a few months demonstrates the power of groupthink and the fragility of a society founded upon strict social roles, gender norms, and religious doctrine.A Time Magazine "Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2015" pickĪ Boston Globe "Best Nonfiction Books of 2015" pickĪ Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction of 2015" pickĪ San Francisco Chronicle " Best Books of 2015" pickĪn O, The Oprah Magazine " 16 Books To Start 2016 Right" pickĪ Chicago Tribune "The Best Books of 2015" pickĪ Houston Chronicle "15 Notable Books of 2015" pickĪ Bustle "11 Nonfiction Books By Women Every Book Club Should Read" pick The mass panic that swept through New England’s tight-knit and deeply religious Puritan communities shattered the Puritans’ burgeoning theocracy in early America and revealed the power of fear to divide communities forever. Of those, 30 were found guilty 14 women and 5 men were executed by hanging. Over 200 people (mostly women) were accused of witchcraft. These trials-the most famous witch trials in American history-took place from February of 1692 all the way through May of 1693.
Though Escaping Salem focuses on a series of witch trials that took place in Stamford, Connecticut in the summer of 1692, Richard Godbeer contextualizes the fear that swept through Stamford within the larger background of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
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