In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons.
- ISBN10 1328557065
- ISBN13 9781328557063
- Publish Date 9 October 2018 (first published 10 October 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English