Rails Under My Back (Harvest Book)

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A dazzling family saga that brilliantly reflects the reality of the African-American experience in the United States

Hatch and Jesus Jones are cousins on their fathers' side and on their mothers' side, and you can't have a family much more bound than that. And family is the most important entity for these young men, even when family seems to be defined by abandonment. Rails Under My Back traces these two men from one form of bondage or freedom to another, from one job to another, as they face down danger and try to come to terms with their family's past.

This ambitious novel, which has been hailed by critics nationwide as a rare achievement on the level of fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright, is the communal expression of a century of African-American life in America, with its imagery of exodus and exile, departure and destiny. It wields extraordinary literary, religious, and historical power, and announces the triumphant debut of a most powerful and utterly original voice.

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Long, overdrawn, and boring..........2004-11-02

Jeffery Renard Allen's first novel "Rails Under My Back" is a 500 page + endurance test. It tests how long you can endure one sentance paragraphs(Jeffery, you are not Hemingway), characters that won't shut up after you get sick of them(Lula Mae, Jesus), and a generally confusing narrative. The family tree helped matters, but I still couldn't really give a crap about this dysfunctional family. By the end, I was glad the cops came and forced Jesus to leave, and I never felt so disappointed in a novel. This claims to be great African-American fiction, instead it's an overhyped "novel" with overuse of "urban" lingo.

"Rails" Follows the Tracks of Two Families".......2001-07-28

...Jeffery Renard Allen's first novel presents the interwoven narratives of two extended families whose histories go back past the Great Migration to the middle of the nineteenth century. "Rails Under My Back" is partly autobiographical, but it is blessedly free of the personal grievances so typical of confessional writing. And though the subject of race figures naturally in the book, it differs from protest novels like Richard Wright's and from celebrations of African American life like Zora Neale Hurston's, in that it is driven by no particular racial agenda. Allen's themes are the ordinary mysteries of human beings anywhere: the fitful dynamics between generations, the various effects of minor events on different members of the same family, and the uniqueness of every human life, unfolding with its particular and unpredictable logic.

Twenty years ago the McShan sisters married the Jones brothers, conjoining two long-lived clans and establishing their homes in a Midwestern city rather like modern Chicago. Their teenaged children - - Hatch, the son of Sheila and Lucifer, and Jesus, son of Gracie and John - - were inseparable while growing up, but now they've drifted apart. Hatch, a voracious reader, wants a career in music; Jesus, smoldering with rages he doesn't wholly understand, gravitates toward gang life in the inner-city projects. As the narrative opens, 17-year-old Jesus is coming home only rarely, intimidating his relatives (including Hatch) with his iron eyes, bulletlike shaved head, and surly silences.

How did two boys so close in age, blood, and background turn out so differently? In Allen's book this question, explicitly the center of John Edgar Wideman's fine "Brothers and Keepers," is merely implied. But it offers a plot that's taut as well as subtle, in vectors of simultaneous construction and destruction. By acts of violence Jesus seeks to tear the family apart, even as Hatch and his sister Porsha, a successful model who has fallen in love with an inner-city hoodlum, try to connect their lives with family history. At times the characters experience personal bonds as bondage, and separation from loved ones feels a lot like freedom. Will Jesus break every tie of kinship and affection? Will Hatch follow Jesus into an urban wilderness?

Social criticism is implied in scenes from the city projects--the rust-bucket elevators, urinous halls, disintegrating families, paralyzing oscillations between random violence and inertia--and in the baffled, dead-end fates of Black men who helped fight their nation's wars. But no rancors lie behind these themes. There's no piousness, either, in the book's focus on people who daily, endlessly do menial jobs in order to maintain decent lives. Allen's characters have simply inherited a remarkable capacity for work from ancestors like Pappa Simmons, who said, "Labor is the deck. All else is the sea."

"Rails" is a long book. Though its recurrent railway journeys create a poetic coherence, they can be so dizzy we lose any sense of direction. Events sometimes merge confusingly, and a few plot threads are left dangling. Occasionally the prose reads like fragments shored against someone's ruin - - scraps of nursery rhyme, rap song, and jump-rope chant are juxtaposed with marginalia in family albums, an FBI clipping, an NAACP notice safety-pinned into a book, a funeral program. Maybe the unsigned letter found in a family Bible speaks for this novel's author: "It should be easy to follow the thread of my storyý The seams show." But even fans of postmodern pastiche will sometimes need to ask of Allen's book (as Porsha asks of the letter), "How am I sposed to read this?"

Still, Allen's characters, including his remarkable women, are uniquely imagined. His portrayals of married life are fresh and intelligent: the helpless love between Lucifer and Sheila gives neither a window on the other's surprising inner world, while Gracie, strangely tormented by the ghosts of babies, struggles to accept John's bad case of the walking blues. Porsha's work in photography studios is fascinating. Young men in the projects talk amazing trash, part horrifying menace and part comic bluster. Cityscapes unfold like prose-poems, flashbacks to stories of Whole Daddy and Pappa Simmons are marvelous, and the book has intriguing religio-mythic dimensions - - the names of Jesus and Lucifer are no accident.

Readers who love the works of Ellison, Morrison, and Faulkner will welcome Allen's book. In an era when marketability reigns, we should thank his publishers, too, for backing a first novel this challenging, ambitious, and seriously literary.

A bumpy ride..........2001-03-23

Here is a newer author who has demonstrated his voice is one that will be discernible in the overpopulated choir of modern writers. I just hope I get some clue as to what he is attempting to convey. I read the book slowly and carefully, very slowly and very carefully. I made copious use of the genealogical chart... as if I had a choice. Similarity in names among members of the extended family impeded my progress at several junctures. I tried to defer a final opinion until I had taken the time to re-evaluate, however the end result remained unchanged, confusion, with frustration a photo-finish second.

Without question, Jefrey Renard Allen is an up and coming wordsmith. He has the capability to evoke imagery of crystal clarity yet I found myself in a state of flux as to why I had been suddenly transported to a new time, place or generation. As far as I could tell and believe me, I read page by page, RAILS UNDER MY BACK is at its core the story of the interdependencies, aspirations, and failures of two doubly-bound families (brothers married to sisters) in a large northern city, some contrived amalgam of New York and Chicago. In all things relevant the rail system which I saw as a metaphor of family ties, was the instrument of definitive influence. The train/subway/elevated are equally a method of escape and the locus of security.

The book, set primarily in the 1970s, flows seamlessly from city to city, generation to generation, reality to surreal, and that in fact is one of the problems. Give me at a subtle clue we are moving on. I am not infering the transitions were haphazard in placement but they were not effectively introduced nor conducive to the reader's enjoyment.

RAILS is not oppressively long but it is a challenge to read. Regrettably, the end of the trip does not justify the rigors of the journey.

Outstanding!.......2000-07-13

Haven't read anything better since John Wideman's The Cattle Killing. It is simply outstanding. So full of life, so surprising, so beautifully written.

Outstanding!.......2000-07-13

Haven't read anything better since John Wideman's The Cattle Killing. It is simply outstanding. So full of life, so surprising, so beautifully written.

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Rails Under My Back

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Jeffery Renard Allen. Rails under My Back.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

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Jeffery Renard Allen. Rails under My Back.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Christopher C. De Santis
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Title: Jeffery Renard Allen. Rails under My Back.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Christopher C. De Santis
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
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Long, overdrawn, and boring..........2004-11-02

"Rails" Follows the Tracks of Two Families".......2001-07-28

A bumpy ride..........2001-03-23

RAILS is not oppressively long but it is a challenge to read. Regrettably, the end of the trip does not justify the rigors of the journey.

Outstanding!.......2000-07-13

Haven't read anything better since John Wideman's The Cattle Killing. It is simply outstanding. So full of life, so surprising, so beautifully written.

Outstanding!.......2000-07-13

Haven't read anything better since John Wideman's The Cattle Killing. It is simply outstanding. So full of life, so surprising, so beautifully written.

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When a member of one of the classic supergroups falls victim to a seedy sex scandal, the murder investigation takes Walker and Pilgrim on a journey that will change the way the world looks at super-heroes forever. The shocking conclusion has had the Internet abuzz for months - now find out why! Plus: Exclusive extras, including a brand new "Bendis and Oeming interview each other" feature, bonus text pieces, a cover gallery, a making of the scene and much more!

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'Sellouts' proves that Bendis hasn't sold out........2007-09-16

One of the best things I've read this year. Sellouts is the point where Powers stopped being very good and became great. If you've lost your enthusiasm for the book at any point this is definitely worth picking up.

Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

A story of a superteam that is self destructing from jealousy and sex scandals. Then there is the envy and pent up ill feelings from the sidekicks. The problem is, what do you do when one of the members gets mad, and this one has the power to destroy the planet if he feels like it. Pilgrim and Walker are in way over their heads.

Supergroup II........2006-04-21

Brian Michael Bendis, Powers: Sellouts (Marvel, 2004)

Powers is back for a sixth installment, Sellouts. As with Supergroup, here we get the story of a band of Powers who broke up-- in this case over merchandising rights, of all things-- which Walker and Pilgrim are called in to investigate when one of them turns up dead.

While I liked Sellouts well enough-- his take on the situation here is slightly different than it was in the previous book, and the ending is a whopper-- the fact remains that it's too close, both in spirit and in chronology, to Supergroup for comfort-- almost as if Bendis had wanted to play with the idea of an alternate ending, but came up with it after the fact.

Good stuff, but still. ***

Good Stuff.......2004-09-15

Pilgrim and Walker are on the hunt again when a series of horrific events leads to a rogue superhero.

Bendis and Oeming continue to put forth the most unusual yet satisfying read in comics. "Powers" is different from other comics in so many ways: it plays off superhero cliches but really makes the stories work with endearing characters and unusual plot points. Brian Michael Bendis once again delivers the best dialogue in comics and although the plot isn't anything groundbreaking, it remains one of the best overall storyarcs yet. Oeming's artwork is still very good and very appropriate for the story while Pantazis' colors accompany the art well: at times very dark, muted colors and sometimes very bright, colorful palettes are used.

"Powers" continues to be one of the best reads in comics; this volume will keep impressing readers by providing a good combination of action, good characterization and dialogue, status quo changing stories, and superb artwork.

NOTE: This book is recommended for older readers due to strong language and strong violence, blood and gore (a comic book equivalent to an R-rated movie).

A turning point in the Powers story........2004-03-12

The "Powers" comics have been police procedurals applied to superheroes, but the stories have involved wider societal issues. The Powers are stand-ins for the rich, powerful and famous in our society, and mixed with the stories are glimpses of how they affect us and warp our lives. Now, a superhero murder case - similar to those of previous "Powers" story arcs - leads to global catastrophies, and what many of the characters believe will be "the end of the world." Bendis and Oeming are simultaneously mocking standard superhero groups - the cover is a clear reference to DC's "Super Friends" of the 1970's - and warning us that celebrity worship diminishes us. And by centering the story on ordinary people - the former Power, now powerless cop Christian Walker and his forceful human partner Deena Pilgrim - the creators keep normal humanity and human concerns in mind.

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Tomorrow's Sphinx.......2007-03-22

Tomorrow's Sphinx is an extremely imaginative and thought provoking read. With wonderful characters and beautiful descriptions, Clare Bell has created an exquisite world like no other.
Kichebo, a cheetah who's lucky to have survived past year one, is not like the rest of her kin. She is unique in the sense that she is black with gold tear lines, gold ear tips, and a gold tail tip, and that she is mentally different from her brethren. Shunned because of her differences, Kichebo is destined to find out that she is different in a way that she could never have fathomed. Through the guidance of Asu-Kheknemt, a long dead cheetah who protected and befriended Tutankhamen, a wise, grayed cheetah named Gray Cape, and the affectionate human child, Menk, Kichebo will soon discover what her place in the world is, and find herself.
I would highly reccomend this book to anyone who wants a fresh original fantasy read, you will not be dissapointed!!

Tomorrow's sphinx.......2005-03-24

I love this book! I found it in my school library a few months ago, and since then have read it at least four times. The story involes a type of cats and Egypt, both things I like. Now if only I could get my friend to read it.....But really, anyone who loves books in different times and/or cats will(or should) like this book!

Cats and Time Travel Just Seem to Go Together!.......2004-01-17

Kichebo is a black cheetah, born in a far-flung future. Unlike the gold-coated, black spotted cheetahs around her, her coat is sable with gold markings. Everywhere she goes, she is hunted by strange creatures in sky vehicles that try to capture her. Unable to find acceptance or safety among her kind, she makes contact with another--amazingly like herself. Kehknemt lived thousands of years ago, the companion of an Egyptian Prince. Through these shared memories across time, and the strange friendship Kichebo strikes up with small two-legged creature, the black cheetah hopes to find the answers to the questions of why she is so different, and what her future might hold.

Clare Bell has a real love of the big cats, and provides an insightful look into the lives of these large hunters. Her depiction of the cheetah society does not try to over-anthropomorphize the cats into human beings. Although they communicate in a sentient manner and are provided with personality and purpose, their behaviors and lifestyles remain those of powerful semi-solitary predators. It makes for an interesting glimpse into how an intelligent society of cats might develop. Beyond this, Kichebo's story is one coming of age and discovery of self. The questions Kichebo most seeks an answer to are: "Why am I so different?" and "What is the meaning of my life?" Questions that are universal and easy to understand, if not easy to answer. Kichebo is destined to take her people in a new direction, one she never imagined. The time travel aspect of this book gives us a fascinating look into what might have been in the days of King Tutankhamen, and the reasons behind the young King's early death.

This book is written with young readers in mind, much of Kichebo's search for self and struggle to become who she is will echo with adolescents who are going through the same struggle. I read this book in my teens and have reread it several times since. I think adult readers will find the story lacks the kind of mature sophistication they might be used to in adult science fiction, but it fits the intended readership well. For those who enjoy this book, see if you can find Ratha's Creature, also by Clare Bell.

Happy Reading! Shanshad ^_^

Excellent scifi and animal book.......2002-05-18

This is my favorite book. I could read it over and over again and never get tired of it. It has an excellent point of view from the animal and great scifi entertainment. If you love wild cats especially cheetahs and you like Egypt and it's history and you're into scifi I suggest you read Tomorrow's Sphinx.

Tomorrow's Sphinx.......2000-01-10

I really enjoyed this book. The auther's wrighting style grabbs you in the first few pages so you can't put it down until the amazing conclusion. This is a totally worth-wile read.

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Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena. "The naked public square"—which results from the exclusion of popular values from the public forum—will almost certainly result in the death of democracy.

The great challenge, says Neuhaus, is the reconstruction of a public philosophy that can undergird American life and America's ambiguous place in the world. Arguing that America is now engaged in an historic moment of testing, he draws upon Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish thinkers who have in other moments of testing seen that the stakes are very high—for America, for the promise of democratic freedom elsewhere, and possibly for God's purpose in the world.

An honest analysis of the situation, says Neuhaus, shatters false polarizations between left and right, liberal and conservative. In a democratic culture, the believer's respect for nonbelievers is not a compromise but a requirement of the believer's faith. Similarly, the democratic rights of those outside the communities of religious faith can be assured only by the inclusion of religiously-grounded values in the common life.

"The Naked Public Square" does not offer yet another partisan program for political of social change. Rather, it offers a deeply disturbing, but finally hopeful, examination of Abraham Lincoln's century-old question—whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

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Naked: without overarching belief, consensus, personal morality, or real, organized religion.......2006-11-16

Richard Neuhaus' The Naked Public Square can be summed up no better than the quote that is on the front of the book: "The book from which further debate about church-state relations should begin."

The book's contents are not for the young or those with short attention spans: however, his point is excellent, and twenty years after the writing of this book, Richard Neuhaus appears to have hit the nail square on the head.

The primary purpose of The Naked Public Square is to alert the reader to the coming of a new era in the United States. The era is not good or new: instead it is an evil that, here, now, sweeps across portions of the world. Europe, Russia and China seem to have already fallen victim to it, and the United States is the last great world power to meet it.

The terror is, of course, this naked public square. It is naked because it is without overarching belief, consensus, personal morality, or real, organized religion. It's a place where God cannot be mentioned, where vicious revenge is taken on any individual or group that may attempt to bring their religion or worldview into the mainstream. It's a place where the law needs only the justification of power to hold it's place, where the authority of the Bible, the church, God, and all other things that lay claim to authority not of this world are scorned as "intolerant." This naked public square indoctrinates every man to believe everything spiritual is relative, and that it is wrong, pointless, rude or all three to convince another individual to think his way. Religion is prevented from becoming solidly organized as a force that could challenge the moral legitimacy of the government or the culture-forming, powerful elite of society. Neuhaus says it would be enforced by the least likely of people: libertarian judges.

Though all of this seems rather depressing, Neuhaus reminds us that this naked public square is not unavoidable. This is a time of turmoil and a time when this country can choose a direction, and we must choose before someone else chooses for us.

The Naked Public Square is thought provoking, deep, interesting, and packing a huge dose of truth. I would recommend that every American or European read it to enlighten themselves and to remember its message every time they go to the polls.

One of Chip's Top Ten (wordsntone.com).......2005-09-11

This book put my faith to the test: Can I be in the world, but not of it? Neuhaus' "naked public square" refers to the public spaces in American life, which are naked or empty because religion and religious values have been systematically excluded from the public arena and from determination of public policy. This book should be given to every politician-does anyone have a few hundred thousand dollars so we can do that? Get the book and learn how you can clothe the naked public square.

Interesting, but ultimately flawed and propagandistic.......2004-06-11

John Richard Neuhaus is one of the leading intellectuals in the United States today, specially concerning issues of religion and state. The argument he makes in this book is the one he has been defending since the 90's in the journal he edits, First Things. This argument has become the mainstream in the agenda of the neoconservative movement and the Republican Party, as much as it has been adopted by the religious right.

That argument can be synthesized as it follows: the secular state has pushed religion out of the public square, depraving it of the only element capable of giving meaning and morality to what he calls "the American experiment". While the founders of the nation were for this separation between religion and politics, Neuhaus contends, they also expected that government role was limited, and that religion itself could work to provide that sense of morality (or what is called the "republican virtue"). But since the state has grown and invaded spheres where it had no jurisdiction initially (like education or courts), to promote a secular view of morality - which Neuhaus claims is incompatible with the will of most of the American people-, it is necessary to rethink the state of things concerning the debate of Church and State in the US. This new "civic religion" based on pure secular principles not only goes against the will of the people, not also is an attempt to purge religions from the public square (living it "naked"), but at the end will push the state to become totalitarian (since Neuhaus claims that the essence of totalitarism, resides in the absolute power of the state, which is the result of removing religion out of the competing powers in a society, and creating a government based on pure utilitarian reason, without the support of transcendent based morality).

In this context, the appearance of the new religious right in the US must not surprise us. Only certain aspects of the secular elite - the media, the academia and the politicians- can be surprised with this, because they have become elitist and learned to despise the importance of popular movements. Nor the furious rhetoric of the religious right should scare us: it may have horrible anti-intellectual anti democratic tone but the essence of their demands is what we should look. And that is, the demand that religion is included back into the discussion in the public square, that religion is part of citizens more cherished convictions and that it cannot be ignored by the elites that rule the country; it is anti democratic. To illustrate his point, Neuhaus uses the cases of slavery, civil rights and abortion. All of this disputes that are political, are disputes about distinct moral positions that require the discussion of religious values mixed in the debates. In this sense, Neuhaus call is not only a criticism of the "secularists" that want to imagine a country is a secular country when it is not, but also of the members of the religious right, who have voiced their demands in a language that is essentially private, when those demands demand that they are made in a language that must be public (since they are made in the public square).

The criticism of Neuhaus in this instance is very sharp, since it goes around to see the way the church has assumed church and state relations. It finds that many churches have decided to simply go into exile to show their repulsion of the world, or when they try to participate in politics, they do it with the conviction of imposing their own view of Christianity to others (theocracy). Nuehaus calls for a more "modest" approach, based on an amillenialist understanding of the coming back of the kingdom of God. The idea is that while it is true that Christians now for a fact that the kingdom of God will be set on earth, and thus a Christian order of the world, Christians don't know when this is going to happen; and not only they don't know, but the imperfection of the church prior to the advent of the Kingdom of God, sure make em more humble. They know the truth, but they should not have the right to impose it on others. For that reason Neuhaus calls to Christians to participate in the political world, in the sense of compromise with the "American experiment", which was initially a Christian intend to create a new community of believers. For this Nuehaus revises Christian thought on the matter, and finds that while it is true that Christians are right to be suspicious of the state - it was the state that killed Jesus- and there are biblical references to the state as a source of evil - Revelations 13-, there is also a tradition of Christian thinking that gives legitimacy to the "terrene powers". From Paul (Romans 13) to Origins and Eusebius, there is a line of thought to the church to compromise with earthly affairs.

My main objection to Neuhaus is, as an atheist, the validity of his claim that "moral claims require the existence of God in which to base them". If this premise does not hold water, and thinkers since Plato (see the Eutrypho) don't think it holds, the whole building of the argument father Neuhaus is making crumbles. That is the main problem, but there are others. If it is true that the church makes authoritive claims about the world, which are believed to be true, then there is no true space for the compromise a democracy demands. True cannot be negotiated: it is or it is not. Despise all the efforts of Neuhaus, I don't see how he can resolve this problem. Finally, one of the things that bothers me most, is the way Neuhaus tries to excuse the rhetoric of the religious right, that is not simply offensive or not polite, but simply it's a call for aggression with anybody who disagrees with their agenda.

Strong Medicine.......2003-09-30

I do not agree with everything that Neuhaus says, but when you read what he writes you will see his perspective laid out clearly and can make up your own mind.

Buyer Beware.......2002-11-26

Neuhaus is the ideological equivalent of a Pat Buckhanan, or a Jesse Helms.
It's unfortunate that such personages attain perpetually sponsored platforms to make comfortable careers perched on soapboxes pontificating arrogant, narrow, bigoted, disrespectful, negative commentary on those they choose to target--and are afforded with consistent respect and never personally challenged all the while.

Buyer beware: Neuhaus is not a benevolent, spiritual personage. He is calculated social mover aligned with various neo-conservative organizations. He leads a think tank which which serves as a ruthless pro-Vatican (and anti-anyone-else-who-should-happen-to-cross-my-path) propaganda machine. He routinely publishes rabidly hompohobic articles, and demonstrates little respect or toleration for religious or human diversity.

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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2027 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The writer of "The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America" reflects on the meaning of the book 15 years after its publication. Topics include the role religion plays in assigning moral value to the democratic process, secular humanism, and debates over whether America is or is not a force for good in the world.

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Title: 1984 AND NOW.(democracy and religion)
Author: Richard Neuhaus
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Page: 68

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THE NAKED PUBLIC SQUARE: RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
Richard John. Neuhaus
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