TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Robert David TI - The Man Who Would Be Perfect: John Humphrey Noyes and the Utopian Impulse SN - 9780812277241 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. A Time of Turmoil: John Humphrey Noyes’s Youth and His Religious Conversion --; 2. On the Road to Damascus: Andover, Yale, and a Perfectionist Ideology --; 3. Perfectionism, Anxiety, “The New York Experience” --; 4. Obsessional Behavior: Perfection, Assertions of Leadership, and Disrupted Relationships --; 5. The Quest for Security: Love, Sex, and Marriage --; 6. Institutional Order and Disorder: Paternal Authority and the Family --; 7. Health: A Matter of Life and Death --; 8. Noyes: The Democratic Theocrat --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512807592 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512807592 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512807592.jpg ER -