?Students of the history of Vermont should find much to interest them in the book. Duffy and Muller probe more deeply into the phenomena they discuss than did David Ludlum, whose Social Ferment in Vermont, 1791-1850, provides the only previous systematic treatment of reform movements in the 1830s. ... An Anxious Democracy is a useful addition to the rapidly increasing literature about northern New England. Regional historians should become familiar with its contents.?-American Historical Review