book reviews
Religion and progressive politics in America: A book review
June 29, 2020Each chapter is a whole new story, a movement, preacher, or history lesson.
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Charles Dickens put ordinary people at the heart of the story
June 8, 2020Dickens never forgot how his father was imprisoned for debts and that the financial circumstances of his family forced him to leave school at the age of 12 and work a 10-hour day in a blackening...
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L.A. in the sixties: Power to the people in the City of Angels
April 28, 2020This very readable but meticulously detailed year-by-year account has relevance far beyond its time and place.
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‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch on the fight to save America’s public schools
April 15, 2020Diane Ravitch writes with anger—but it’s righteous anger, it’s justified and it’s what we need right now.
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Book Review: ‘Going Over Home, A Search for Rural Justice in an Unsettled Land’
March 20, 2020Going Over Home gives the reader many reasons to find those seeds of hope and an approach for how to sow them.
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