An American Bible
Subtitle: a history of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880
By: Paul C. Gutjahr.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Bible -- History -- 18th century.; Bible -- Publication and distribution -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Bible -- History -- 19th century.; Bible -- Publication and distribution -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Description: This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material.

By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-252) and index.