In Blood from the Sky, Adam Jortner argues that the astonishing breadth and extent of American miracles and supernaturalism following independence derived from Enlightenment ideas about proof and sensory evidence, offering a chance at ...
Ultimately, the book is a story of Jacksonian America, of how democracy can fail religious freedom, and a case study in popular politics as America entered a great age of religion and violence.
A Promised Land illuminates the key role that Jewish Americans and Judaism played in the country's founding, engaging the larger question of guaranteeing religious freedom at a critical juncture in American history.