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Shouldn't life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living, and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way?
These are questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turns to her childhood role model -- Louisa May Alcott -- for direction. She sends an e-mail to Louisa, and is amazed when she receives a reply. Their correspondence becomes a dance of ideas and tales bridging the mid-1800s and the twenty-first century.
But why Louisa? "Her abolitionist zeal, her women's rights advocacy, her hospital work, her crazy commune days, her heartfelt desire to leave the world a better place, her humor and her energy all materialized in front of me," writes Bakke. "Louisa was serious when she signed her letters, 'Yours for reforms of all kinds.' She made her life, she didn't just live it."
When Kit Bakke came of age in the late 1960s, America was going through major social and political turmoil. She and many of her generation elected to pursue radical ways to protest the Vietnam War and civil rights injustices at home, and Bakke joined the notorious Weather Underground. Eventually she left the movement to become a wife, a mother, and a professional nurse, but the persistent questions about the best way to live her life, make her contribution, and find satisfaction remained.
By initiating her extraordinary correspondence with Louisa May Alcott, Kit hopes to "pick up some clues for my friends and myself about how better to live the thirty or so years that might be remaining to us. And besides, we would be giving Louisa a treat that couldn't be beat -- a peek into the future."
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19th Century E-Mails.......2007-07-02
This book sneaked under my radar but I'm glad that a kind friend, who had seen my review of a book of Alcott scholarship, sent me a copy of the ARC, which may differ slightly from the published version.
Kit Bakke belonged to the radical Weather Underground and thus identifies with Louisa May Alcott's idealistic and radical side, to the extent that she disparages LITTLE WOMEN (shock! horror!) in favor of such mature novels as WORK and MOODS. To her credit, she practically persuades the reader that these are important documents of American literary history, although she never really convinces me into believing that LITTLE WOMEN is a lesser work than we had thought. She just isn't skilled enough as a polemicist to make the case. Nor is she talented enough to pull off the fancy of being two people writing e-mails to each other over a century, herself and Alcott, especially when she has to update Alcott about all the social and cultural changes that have occurred since Alcott's death like US involvement in Vietnam and the Beatles vs. the Stones argument. (Rock music is "very experimental, loud and dramatic, with lyrics by handsome young men all about relationships, nature, and politics.")
However, what sets Kit Bakke apart from other writers is her sheer love of life and the ease with which she fits together two eras that seem, at the outset, so very different as to have nothing to say to each other. She tells us about a contemporary who, inspired by the Cuban revolution, named her daughter "Guevara," then changed the baby's name to "Guava" when radical chic faded and nouvelle cuisine caught her eye.
Bakke also makes Alcott's minor works sound interesting, especially her final uncompleted novel, DIANA AND PERSIS, which she sums up into four leading questions, "Can a productive and creative single woman be happy?" "Can a married woman maintain her personal life and friends?" "Can women be both personally happy and professionally successful?" "Can people be happily married and still respect each other's privacy and basic human rights?" Not all of these questions are of the same timbre or register, but it is almost as though they were too weighty for Alcott to answer fully, in the occluded times she shared with millions of other deracinated American women, not even "given the vote" for another 40 years, and that the effort made in posing the questions quite possibly carried her off--for she did die young, after all, needlessly so, having worn herself out in a lifetime of suffering, labor, sorrow, misunderstood love, and a dream of equal rights for all. Many recent commentators on Alcott have pointed to her productivity and likened her to a writing machine, a woman who'd write anything, from horror to melodrama to jokes, as long as she got her penny per word, and made her out to seem like an Erma Bombeck of the 19th century. In Bakke's version, that's all wrong, and she labored mightily to actualize herself in everything she did and, more importantly, in the words she left behind.
Educational!.......2007-04-13
I thought this was so refreshing! Generations of women think they konw Louisa, as Jo in her novels, but really there was so much more! I appreciate that Ms. Bakke has given us insight into the 19th century struggles, as I read this book at a time when I felt frustrated by what is going on in our country today. It is good to know that we have made progress, over the last 140 years, and even over the last 40 years since the 60s. One thing I could have used even more of, was insight into those movements of the 1960s...
A terrific, non-stop read.......2006-09-28
I read this book in one sitting. It was a non-stop read. What was intriguing to me was the use of the correspondence between the author and Louisa May Alcott which seemed quite legitimate because they share similar backgrounds in different eras. It reminds me of another great book, written 30 years ago, by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, "A Woman of Independent Means" which uses the letter-writing conceit exclusively. Kit Bakke is on to something and I hope she is at work on another book.
MARVELOUS! Much better than I expected!.......2006-09-21
What is it about those old Concord folks that causes us to revisit them and put them in fictionalized settings? First it was "Mr. Emerson's Wife" (by Amy Belding Brown), and now "Miss Alcott's E-mail." I admit that after hearing about this new title, I just shook my head and figured its premise would be silly before I even held the book in my hands. I'm happy to report that I was wrong, wrong, wrong! Ms. Bakke has brought Louisa May Alcott to life for contemporary readers. More than that: she's made Alcott relevant to 21st-century Americans.
Using a unique writing style, Bakke first retells part of Miss Alcott's life story, taking time to weave her own reminiscences into the historical narration. She then "e-mails" the chapter to Louisa herself, who reacts and responds to what Bakke has written and continues the correspondence. Once we suspend our disbelief that this technique is possible, we find this a memorable format that's sure to appeal to readers who enjoy learning more from historical fiction than they did back in school history classes. Topics covered include Concord, Fruitlands, transcendentalism, the abolitionist movement, women's rights, writing, earning a living, dealing with family, and nursing. In see-saw fashion, both women discuss committing to a cause and doing what seems morally right in a situation. Bakke's involvement in the Vietnam anti-war movement and her career in the health profession make her the perfect person to relate to Louisa's own involvement in abolition and as a Civil War nurse. The biographical chapters and personal letters cause us to equate the 1860s with the 1960s, and we can understand the connections without being told they're there. The further along we read, the more we realize that our struggles are/were very similar. And we might speculate how far men and women have really come in the past century. Or not.
Librarians and bookstore clerks will struggle to figure out where to shelve this book, for it is fiction, biography, and contemporary memoir rolled into one package. I hope that dilemma doesn't deter its potential audience from finding it, for these pages are well worth delving into.
"Miss Alcott's E-mail" is a well-crafted book that should be read by many women and shared by mothers and daughters, especially when half of those readers (either the mothers or the daughters) are Baby Boomers who are part of Ms. Bakke's generation. The title will also appeal to book groups, since a set of beginning discussion questions appears at the end of the volume. Fans of the Transcendentalists should be pleased with this one as well.
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Tiberius's view of Tiberius.......2006-11-07
This is the reign of Tiberius as seen from his perspective. It is interesting and entertaining but really fails to follow the historical record and in general paints Tiberius as misunderstood rather than the paranoid monster he is described as in the historical accounts -- which admittedly may not have been all that accurate either. However, I enjoyed this book (as I did Augustus) and thought Massie's interpetation of some of the events might actually be plausible. I thought the early stages of his marriage to Vipsania was very plausible. The same is true of Sejanus. How and why did Tiberius trust this man and Massie's interpretation is certainly plausible.
Of course keeping track of all of the characters is a challenge but that is true of the historical record as well. I only gave the book three stars because I thought some of the dialog was a little anachronistic. Still it is a good book and well worth the reading.
Blows "Augustus" out of the water.......2006-06-10
Clever, witty and original, Allan Massie writes under the name of the emperor who everyone remembers for being bloody and cruel. Tiberius himself, a man who forced to divorce his wife to marry Augustus' own daughter Julia, forced to become emperor and so bitter as to treat Julia and her children so brutally that each one in turn committed suicide just to get away from him. This novel takes us into the mind of Tiberius and gives us a smashing tale of sex, violence and rivalry.
Tiberius grew up with his brother and father until his father sadly died and he is taken into Caesar's home. His mother, Livia, is the wife of Augustus and ambitious for his future. However, growing up he finds his interests in other things such as the army and even worse, his young, beautiful and desirable stepsister. Constantly teasing him, Julia knows that she is able to arouse Tiberius into such emotions that he willingly gives into his desires. When Tiberius takes Vipsania as his wife, he still can't help taking to Julia's bed rather then his wife's. However, once Julia consents to marry Vipsania's father, Agrippa, their affair stops and neither of them see each other again for a long while. Tiberius grows to love Vipsania tenderly and though not passionately, he respects and admires her calmness and softness. After the birth of their son, Tiberius feels happier then ever. However, upon the death of Agrippa, his widow Julia is forced to return to Rome where her father makes Tiberius a new match in the form of the object of his desire...
In the second half of his life, everyone he knew, he loved and lusted are dead: Augustus, Julia, Vipsania and Drusus, his beloved brother, leaving him quite bitter and reproachful. For good reason as he is faced with a creature of an entirely different order: Agrippina, Julia's daughter. While carrying similar beauty to her mother, she lacks anything of the charm, cheerfulness and happy-go-lucky that Julia had, but with the same self-importance and self-perfection that Augustus had and the same snappy and hard going streak as her father Agrippa, that makes Livia look tame. His slow descent into carelessness and cruelty is shown as he slowly begins to write off his harsh punishments of having Agrippina sent to the island of Pandataria where "his poor Julia" had dwelled in exile, and the slaughter of Sejanus and his allies as a thing that had to be done.
TIBERIUS is a vast improvement of the first novel AUGUSTUS, showing entertainment and fairness and making it sound less like a TV-show from the sixties, as AUGUSTUS appeared to do. His dislike of Augustus, his respect for his mother, his affection for Vipsania and his lustful obsession with Julia all of this and more paints a colourful and entertaining book while putting Tiberius into a fresh light where you still see him from the cruel and harsh man he became, yet you see history turned towards the man himself and see things on not what "exactly" happened but what might have. Rather then making him too perfect and self absorbed about things as Augustus does in AUGUSTUS, Tiberius knows he is faulted, cruel and bad, and he shows it without ever having to say it. Whether, of course we were met to believe Augustus was a pompous and self-absorbed man in AUGUSTUS, I'm not entirely sure. After reading AUGUSTUS, rush off to your library; bookshop or friend's house to read TIBERIUS to see not only Tiberius with a clean slate but of characters of the first book, most noticeably Julia, put into a light where they are seen for what they were to another individual rather then everyone. This detail makes TIBERIUS such a joy to read, its more realistic and exciting overview on life from anyone other then Augustus.
An inferior sequel to "Augustus".......1999-04-16
As a book on its own, "Tiberius" may be an interesting book, but as a sequel to "Augustus" it is inferior. Several scenes from "Augustus" were re-played just to give Tiberius's point of view, which may be interesting psychologically, but makes the book look phony. Massie goes too far in giving a favorite view on Tiberius: he ommits Tiberius's bloody purge of Sejanus's followers, for instance. Still, the subject matter and the early part of the book make its reading worthwhile.
A Good Read For Fans of Robert Graves.......1998-03-23
Done in the first-person-emperor narrative style of Robert Graves's Claudius books, Massie offers a far more sympathetic view of Tiberius than most are used to reading. It's a very satisfying read for anyone interested in 1st Century Roman history.
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- Volume Two of Beverly Cleary's Wonderful Autobiography
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My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
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The New Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs,
A Girl From Yamhill, a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel. Now the creator of the classic children's stories millions grew up with continues her own fascination story. Here is Beverly Cleary, from college years to the publication of her first book. It is a fascinating look at her life and a writing career that spans three generations, continuing to capture the hearts and imaginations of children of all ages throughout the world.
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Sad to see it end.......2003-09-05
I have 26 more pg. to read, & I don't want this book to end. I am enjoying seeing parts of Mrs. Cleary's life in her fiction books. I now want to re-read all my Ramona books.
Volume Two of Beverly Cleary's Wonderful Autobiography.......2002-12-28
A must-read for all Beverly Cleary fans. Picks up the story where "A Girl from Yamhill" left off and takes us through her college years and her career as a librarian. A book that will inspire you to become a librarian or a children's book author. As well writen and accessible as all of her children's books about the gang on Klikitat Street.
Sad to See It End.......2001-12-14
After devouring Beverly Cleary's first memoir "A Girl From Yamhill" I couldn't wait to read My Own Two Feet. The only thing to complain about is that there isn't a sequel to this one! Picking up where Yamhill left off, we share in Beverly Cleary's journey through college and into her adult years and the writing of her first book, Henry Huggins. Reading Cleary's Memoirs, I was taken back to my own childhood and my love for Ramona & Beezus. Cleary has a unique gift of simple writing that readers of all ages can enjoy, whether you are 8 or 80. I lover her writing as much today as I did when I was in the 3rd grade.
Highly enjoyable window to the past........2000-07-05
I loved Beverly Cleary's fictional books when I was a boy. More recently, I enjoyed reading her first memoir "A Girl from Yamhill." Therefore, I just had to read her second memoir, "My Own Two Feet" which chronicles her life through college, her work as a librarian, her marriage, and the beginning of her life as a children's author. I loved it! It not only provides a wonderful insight into the mindset and character of its author; but also presents a vivid, sometimes very nostalgic, look at life in the 30's and 40's. It describes an America that has disappeared. A college social life that revolved around a seemingly endless number of dances and a strict code of decorum on how young women should dress and act. A small town opposed to the idea of having two married librarians since jobs were so scarce during the Depression that it was considered fair enough for just the husband to have a job. Also as a Catholic, I was amused by Beverly's parents' opposition to her marriage to Clarence Cleary simply because he was Catholic.
There's also some fun information for the fans of her fictional books. Readers will learn how Ribsy and Ramona got their names and what was Mrs. Cleary's original ending to "Henry Huggins." It's also interesting to note that the character of Ramona Quimby, which is arguably Mrs. Cleary's most beloved, was created simply as an afterthought to keep all her characters from being only children. I absolutely loved this book, and was disappointed it was so short!
WOW! I couldn't put it down!.......2000-04-01
This is a terrific book. I particularly liked that so much of the story took place in places I am very familiar with, like Chaffee College in Ontario and UCBerkeley. The photos are fascinating too. This a wonderful book for anybody who has been a college student, or who wants to write, or who has had a difficult relationship with a parent. I thoroughly recommend it!
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1873. Volume Three of Three. Edited by Lt. Colonel Francis Cunningham. Dramatist, poet, scholar and writer of court masques, Ben Jonson was the leading literary figure during the reign of King James I. Jonson was known as an avid scholar of Latin and Greek, and his mastery of the classics, the high-spirited buoyancy of his plays and the brilliance of his language have earned him a reputation as one of the great playwrights in English literature. Jonson was appointed court poet in 1605, and became a writer of court masques-elaborate spectacles that involved music, dancing, and pageantry. Contents of the Third Volume: The Masque of Blackness; The Masque of Beauty; Hymenaei; The Hue and Cry After Cupid; The Masque of Queens; The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers; Oberon, the Fairy Prince; Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly; Love Restored; A Challenge at Tilt, at a marriage; The Irish Masque at Court; Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists; The Golden Age Restored; Christmas His Masque; The Masque of Lethe; The Vision of Delight; Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue; For the Honour of Wales; News from the New World in the Moon; A Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies; The Masque of Augurs; Time Vindicated; Neptune's Triumph; Pan's Anniversary; The Masque of Owls; The Fortunate Isles and Their Union; Love's Triumph Through Callipolis; Chloridia; An Expostulation with Inigo Jones; Love's Welcome at Welbeck; Love's Welcome at Bolsover and Epigrams. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417944676, 1417944684.
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- A must-read for anyone who thinks about society and culture.
- A great book about a pioneering woman.
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This biography of Rosalyn Yalow chronicles more than the life and scientific achievements of a dedicated research scientist. The tenacity Yalow applied to achieving her life's goals--a good family and a Nobel Prize-winning scientific career (medicine-physiology, 1977)--reveals what is both wonderful and wrong with United States research science and medicine. Issues like gender bias, informed consent for patients in clinical trials, fear of radioactivity, and the role of research, education, and patient care in hospitals, where the bottom line looms large, are all discussed in the context of this remarkable woman's life.
As a Jewish woman, Rosalyn Sussman was unique among her classmates when she began graduate school in physics at the University of Illinois in 1941. Three and a half years later, more quickly than anyone else in her program, she completed her Ph.D. By then, she had married a classmate, Aaron Yalow, who would be her husband for the next 50 years. Through memoir and interviews with Yalow's professional and biological families, it is clear that nothing was going to stop her from achieving her goals, and that this aggressive drive affected those close to her.
Without ever submitting a research grant proposal, Yalow and Solomon Berson, her second husband and research partner, were able to develop the radioimmunoassay (RIA), still a key component in biochemical research. Yalow and Berson freely trained scientists from all over the world in RIA and kept no secrets from the scientific community. Such openness stands in stark contrast to today's secretive, competitive, grant-driven culture of academic research. Strauss's biography pays tribute to a remarkable scientist and offers a unique snapshot of science in the latter half of the 20th century. --Irwin Scot Hirsh
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An inspirational story of the Nobel Prize winner who broke the gender barrier in science
The biography of Rosalyn Yalow, as told by her longtime friend and colleague Eugene Straus, is the story of a woman who prevailed against class and gender prejudice to reach the pinnacle of the science world. Yalow's story is related against the backdrop of her later years, when, after having won the Nobel Prize in medicine for inventing a revolutionary test for certain kinds of hormones, she was suddenly felled by a stroke and brought to a hospital where, unrecognized, she was "dumped" as a charity case onto another hospital. Straus's account of Yalow's slow but ultimate triumph over crippling illness is of a piece with that of the dazzlingly talented and tenacious young woman who, despite the barriers placed before her by a male-dominated medical establishment, never compromised her principles of hard work and scientific integrity.
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A must-read for anyone who thinks about society and culture........1998-06-07
As someone who is concerned with how gender influences our movement within society and our personal development, I found this book fascinating. To say nothing of the fact that this is one of very few books about a woman of intellect and emotional control of daunting proportions. As a woman physician, this book provided insight into my own development and future path. But as a woman, I hope men read this book. The insights go far beyond medicine, or careers, to the center of the gender issues that face us all.
A great book about a pioneering woman........1998-06-04
Rosalyn Yalow, from a poor uneducated family in the Bronx, and educated in the New York City public school system, became the first American educated woman to make it to the top in science or medicine. A nuclear physicist who never took a course in biology, she developed a method to identify and measure vanishingly small amounts of almost any substance in body fluids and tissues. As a result her work revolutionized virtually every aspect of medicine and biomedical science. What did it take to succeed in universities, hospitals, and scientific establishments that were completely dominated by men and male culture? What price did she pay? What barriers still stand in the way of women in these fields? This book speaks to these questions and more. It provides a searching and sensitive portrait of an overpowering woman who stood alone, fought for her place, and guided other women to follow their dreams and abilities. Yet the book is about human relationships; motherhood, marriage, partnership, and especially Yalow's relationship with herself. It is also about the ongoing struggle to achieve equal opportunity for all people. It reads like a novel, with a poetic feel for words and structure. Even the science is seamless and available to readers with little or no scientific background. Here is a great book about a great woman who is not an actress, not a heiress, not a figure in a political scandal, but a towering intellectual figure who changed the world. I couldn't put it down. Read it, then give it to your kids. Especially the young adult boys and girls.
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In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.
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a little book about a small farm written with unusual poetry and love.......2007-08-31
I am a city person, and the closest I have been to a small farm is buying apples in the autumn at a roadside stand. I have no idea how I chose to buy this book and Jane's two other ones, but I did buy it and fell in love with it. The poetry is deep; she tells the story of her aging father who in his eighties tries to keep his beloved farm going, her brother who has stayed to help but is angry and sometimes dysfunctional, her mother, and her own return after many years. These are wound around and blended with tales of seasons of growth -- of apples, berries, all sorts of corn and the customers who show up decade after decade to buy what they loved last year. It is truly a spiritual book, and gives this city girl a sense of the enduring earth and its gifts and the people who are closest to it.
Here and Nowhere Else.......2000-01-04
Here and Nowhere Else captures with its perfect language the timeless undulations of rural living. It is not so much like reading a book as it is like walking the land with someone who respects both the comfort and the pain it can give. A truthful recording of enormous loss and a lyric epitaph for a family farm.
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Quite a shame it's hard to find.......2006-06-17
I read this book a long, long time ago. It was fascinating to read about the backgrounds of all the translators who were responsible with translating and publishing what we all now know to be the King James Version of the Bible. Obviously, not all the translators lived long enough to see their work come to fruition. However, their scholarship and mastery of the original languages is well-documented and is yet to be rivaled.
What makes this book even more interesting is the foreword written by RE Rhoades. He made it pointedly clear that ever since Westcott and Hort came out with their Revised Version, the standard for solid biblical translation has gone from bad to worse. The plethora of "translations" that have followed since then testify to this. Even worse is the increased level of contempt that supposed Bible "students and scholars" have exhibited toward the KJV/AV since then.
Oh, and one other thing. McClure writes near the end that he didn't think there would ever be another assemlage of such exemplary scholars. So far, he has been proven to be right.
A unique look at the KJV translators-lives & qualifications.......1998-09-27
This book represents one in a line of works in support of the King James Version of the Bible, a fading legacy to the faithfulness and graciousness of God. He (God) has seen it fit to preserve His Word to all generations, and has done so in a most majestic and beautiful way in the KJV. The work of McClure points to the amazing gathering of some of the greatest linguistic minds ever on one project at one time. These men knew the languages as if they were their own native tongue. This is not to say that there are no scholars of like ability today. But the miracle is that the learned minds of 54 such men could be brought to bear on this project. The KJV has been declared to be THE monumental work of the English language - this from a human perspective. From God's perspective, it is His Word faithfully preserved in English. Men are wont to ridicule the KJV today, scoffing at its inaccuracies and deficient underlying texts. But God has produced a 387 year-old masterpiece that never fails to thrill the minds of its readers, Christian or no. R.E.Rhoades writes a powerful and informative foreward to this 1858 work. In it he deals with the problems of many of the current Bible versions and identifies the Westcott/Hort Greek text as the culprit, traces the history of the English Bible, and provides a useful list of Bibles printed from 1530 to 1611, and a partial list down to the New King James Version of 1982. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Bible in the English language, to those who wonder why it makes a difference which version we use, and to those who just love the beauty of style and form manifested in the KJV. You will be amazed at the scholarship of the translators, one of whom spent from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily in the library in study, another of whom the remark is made, "at the age of five years, he had read the Bible in Hebrew"! There are not many books like this available today.
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Very Important.......2001-03-17
I can't believe this book has gone out of print. It is a nicely done biography by a close friend and colleague of Dr. Machen. Better still is D.G. Hart's bio. *Defending the Faith.*
Dr. Machen remains one of the greatest and most misunderstood theologians of the 20th century. Stonehouse's bio. is a good place to begin understanding why.
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