PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewDickey, a meticulous researcher, unearths fresh detail about our best-known ruptures with reality ... I wish this book allowed more Americans drawn to such false theories to speak ... Dickey presents a thoroughgoing record of panics and violence all but erased by history. But his accounting, particularly of the colonial period and early 19th century, is so dense that it is hard to track who did what to whom and when.
