Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: About development of the American religious/social movement

This book, excellently researched and well written, describes those religious and social movements that developed after the Civil War. Therein are contained lessons for today; religious and/or social "revelation" and its effects on society are well documented in this book.In an historian's typically dispassionate manner, Ms. Tyler documents the unfolding of these religious and social movements, which not only helped shape American thinking in the late 19th century, but which find their counterparts in today's religious and political right.Many lessons can be learned from this book, should one be willing to hear the message.