Preface: "Night Stalker"
Chapter 1: "The Devil is Come Down in Great Wrath"
Chapter 2: Darkness Invisible
Chapter 3: The Devils of Daniel Webster
Chapter 4: Casting out Devils
Chapter 5: Hellhound on my Trail
Chapter 6: Lucifer Rising
Chapter 7: The Beast
Epilogue: Shame the Devil
Hunting the Devil: A Bibliographic Essay
W. Scott Poole is associate professor in history at the College of Charleston. He is the author of five books dealing with American religion, race, and popular culture.
Poole's engaging, wide-ranging survey of Satan in America from the
Puritans to the War on Terror is an insightful and provocative
counterpoint to works by Stephen Prothero and others of Jesus in
America. Poole shows how much the enemy always has been within us
and then projected outward.
*Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs*
From witch hunts of the colonial period to wars on terror in the
modern era, from the raspy voice of blues musicians to the
foreboding demonic presence in major motion pictures, Satan has
been everywhere in American religion and culture. W. Scott Poole
offers a brilliant book about the prince of darkness in our current
and historical consciousness. This is an outstanding work.
*Edward J. Blum, author of W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet*
Satan in America has an expansive scope. . . . Poole's work will
introduce nonspecialists to various interesting American religious
figures and ideas. . . . Recommended.
*CHOICE*
Poole compellingly documents how the threat of the devil has been
used throughout history to justify acts of bigotry, exclusion, and
even official acts of cruelty and mass murder, from the colonial
Indian wars up to the present. This insightful, profoundly
troubling book is essential reading for anyone wishing to
understand the dark roots of American cultural history.
*Bill Ellis, Penn State University*
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