{"product_id":"the-ministers-war-john-w-mears-the-oneida-community-and-the-crusade-for-public-morality-9780815610984","title":"The Ministers' War: John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners, corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College philosophy professor and Presbyterian minister John W. Mears mobilized to fight every sin and carnal lure, from liquor to free love. In Upstate New York's famed Oneida Community, Mears encountered his stiffest challenge. Oneida's founder and patriarch, John Humphrey Noyes, oversaw a radical Christian commune where men and women sexually mingled through the practice of complex marriage. While others struggled to dislodge the community that had evolved since 1848 into a successful business venture and congenial neighbor, it was Mears who, after years of trying, rallied New York's church and university leaders for a final, concerted anti-Oneida campaign. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Ministers' War, \u003c\/i\u003e Doyle traces the full story of Mears and the crusade against the Oneida Community. He explores the ways in which Mears's multipurpose zeal reflected the passions behind the nineteenth-century temperance movement, the fight against obscenity, and the public animus toward unconventional thought. As an author, political candidate, and controversialist, Mears was a prominent moralizer at a time when public morality seemed to be most at risk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Doyle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 7.12w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815610984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e is a reporter in Washington, DC, for E\u0026amp;E News, covering environmental issues. He formerly reported on the Supreme Court and California for the Washington bureau of the McClatchy newspapers. He has won awards for his reporting from the National Press Club and the Washington Press Club Foundation, among others. Doyle is the author of \u003ci\u003eRadical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolution an\u003c\/i\u003ed \u003ci\u003eThe Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy along \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe Black River Canal.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40414648696947,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":22.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3e77d1ed-bf97-440e-b0bd-200c37541680.jpg?v=1662213294","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-ministers-war-john-w-mears-the-oneida-community-and-the-crusade-for-public-morality-9780815610984","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}