Pict Hist of the Am Theatre 6t

By Daniel Blum and John Willis

Book Overview

"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." -Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists-the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments-Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517562588
• ISBN13: 9780517562581
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.3" x 12.2"