'With The Age of Charisma, Jeremy C. Young offers a richly suggestive, original, often brilliant and compelling history of how charisma stood at the center of American political culture from the 1880s to 1940. Fluidly written and wonderfully researched, it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of America's past. The scholarship is immensely sound, and I know of no book that comes close to contributing what Young does.' Daniel Horowitz, author of On the Cusp: Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change

'This important book offers an innovative analysis and interpretation of many of the main intellectual, social, political, and religious currents of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. By providing such a clear, persuasive, and direct analytical framework, Young contributes new insights to what we know of the era, identifies some of the key agents of progressive change, and offers a clear and persuasive argument. The research behind this book is excellent and Young's writing is clear and succinct. In sum, this is an excellent book.' Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

'There is much that is valuable in this book … Young's book gives us insight into the historical forms by which a culture theoretically committed to democratic individualism struggled with emotional bonds and problems of authority and social leadership.' Daniel Wickberg, Journal of Social History