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In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired... read more

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AMERICAN CULTURE has entered a period in which atavism looks to us for all the world like progress.

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  1. Marilynne Robinson (Author)

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0395926920
Page Count: 154

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