"Through an innovative emphasis on print culture, Pulpit, Press, and Politics demonstrates that American influences had a far more substantial and enduring impact on the history of Upper Canadian Methodism than scholars have previously acknowledged. Scott McLaren is to be commended for his contribution to the study of this particular denomination and, indeed, the larger Protestant tradition of which it is an important part." - Denis McKim (Canadian Historical Review) "Scott McLaren’s well-researched monograph once again illustrates how much genuine insight Canada’s religious history can deliver for historians of the United States, even as the book also clarifies long-standing debates about the Canadian past."- Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame (Church History ) "Scott McLaren’s ability to make sense of this very particular time, place, and ethos—essentially the roots of publishing in English Canada—is impressive. The tangle of commercial, nationalist, and denominational concerns that surrounded Egerton Ryerson, the Christian Guardian (Upper Canada’s leading newspaper), and the book business that emerged forms a plot as full of intrigue, drama, and betrayal as any great Russian novel."- Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr (Canadian Literature)
