John Demos

Remarkable Providences: the True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case (Rev) John Demos

Marc Notes: Reprint with new 3 page intro; Rev. ed. of: Remarkable providences, 1600- 1760, c.1972; Cloth $45.00. Publisher Marketing: "These documents have been chosen, in every case, for the way they reflect lived experience among average people in our colonial past. There is no real substitute for such primary evidence -- no other way to capture the feel of events from day to day, year to year, generation to generation." -- from the Preface Contributor Bio:  Demos, John John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus of History at Yale. His books include "The Unredeemed Captive", which won the Francis Parkman Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and "Entertaining Satan", which won the Bancroft Prize. He lives in Tyringham, Massachusetts.