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Title: Lots of info, not well written.
Review: Abzug does a good job in compiling lots of information portraying an interesting view on religious reform in the antebellum period. However this book is typical of many in the same category: Abzug is a great historian, but not a very good writer. When reading this book it seems that one must translate every sentence into "regular" English. Abzug is simply hard to understand. However, it would be suspected that anyone who reads this book has some background in the field of antebellum time period and especially reform in New England in the early-to-mid-19th century.Cosmos Crumbling provides some interesting perspectives, but it's a hard read, and when finished you'll probably still be left wondering what Abzug is trying to say. I read the book twice before I had an idea what his main points were.
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