Talking To The Dead

By Barbara Weisberg,

Book cover of Talking To The Dead: Kate And Maggie Fox And The Rise Of Spiritualism

Book description

A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement - and whose recanting forty years later is still…

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1 author picked Talking To The Dead as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I loved this book because it cast Maggie and Kate Fox, the two young women who were caught up in the whirlwind of early Spiritualism, as sympathetic and real individuals. So often books about Spiritualism want to debunk and disprove. Instead the author brought me into the story of the Fox sisters and let me look around a bit.

This book is a perfect mix of history, biography, and narrative, making it fun and informative. 

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