Angel and the Serpent

<p>The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites. --Henry Steele Commager The New York Times Book Review<br /><br />Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists--the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments--Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.</p>