![]() ![]() Even nearby Bostonians thought the villagers odd. ![]() With a bravura introduction, Schiff sets the stage, painting Salem as a backwater populated by a few hundred humorless and self-righteous souls. This Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who vaulted to popular acclaim in 2010 with “Cleopatra: A Life,” has made a career of investigating unexpectedly powerful women, and she does so again in “The Witches.” ![]() Meanwhile, almost anyone who confessed was spared. Between January and September 1692, some 200 people were accused and nearly two dozen executed. Undaunted, Stacy Schiff plunges in with an ambitious new work, “The Witches: Salem, 1692,” probing nine months of secrecy, rumor and death that have spawned as many theories as the Kennedy assassination. The answer to this riddle has consumed historians for more than 300 years. How to reconcile that with hanging innocent people as witches, and doing it on the say-so of some rebellious teenage girls? ![]() The founders of this country considered Americans special - particularly brave, uniquely moral, relentlessly just. ![]()
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