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The doctrine of the two truths--conventional and ultimate--evolved as early Buddhists struggled to reconcile apparent contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. Understood as a teaching on reality as opposed to merely a linguistic distinction.

John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of "spirit machines," and advocate of free love. In his captivating biography, John Buescher brings to life Spear's superlatively odd story. Born in 1804, John Murray Spear began his career as a Universalist minister. Later he was a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Parker in the abolitionist movement and worked as an activist among the New England reformers...

Ann Odelia Diss Debar was an adventuress who operated under many aliases during American's Gilded Age. At one time or another, she was pursued by police on at least three continents. Often incarcerated, but never reformed, she made her name a newspaper synonym for fraud carried out under the pretense of Spiritualist and occult powers. Her scandalous and bizarre career of con artistry intersected with those of Victoria Woodhull, the Vanderbilt family, Leland Stanford, Helena Blavatsky, and a host of other rich and powerful people. Her brazen exploits provided newspapers around the world with...

An edited and annotated collection of humorous writings by American journalists from the golden age of newspapers (roughly, the second half of the nineteenth century), in which they made fun of themselves and their profession. The collection humorously describes the nature and practice of publishing newspapers in the 19th century, and resonates deeply with today's ironic and self-referential humor, by implicitly making journalism itself the target of its satire. The collection is introduced by an essay by John Buescher on the development of newspaper journalism during the 19th century and on...