{"product_id":"the-apparitionists","title":"The Apparitionists","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Apparitionists (Hardcover, 1 pages – Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, 2017) – Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, 2017. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA story of faith and fraud in post-Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A \"spirit photographer,\" William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amidst rumors of seances in the White House. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then, the judge sided with the defense-nobody ever solved the mystery of his spirit photography. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while clinging desperately to belief\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Manseau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53099387060448,"sku":"9781664463479","price":107.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/5681\/6608\/files\/91ayyqCGq2L._SY522.jpg?v=1781705351","url":"https:\/\/medicalbook.online\/products\/the-apparitionists","provider":"medicalbook.online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}