"Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over...
"Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga's family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . An] unusual and fascinating odyssey. . . . However Yelena Khanga reconciles the complex strands of her ancestry in the future, she has, in Soul to Soul, already made a contribution to retrieving a piece of the Soviet Union's unknown history. --Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review
Tells the remarkable story of Ms. Khanga's family, shedding light into unfamiliar corners of both the Soviet and American pasts. . . . An] unusual and...
In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been deluded by the dangerous myth that a radically new old age awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby unmasks the fallacies promoted by twenty-first-century hucksters of longevity, and reveals the hazards of the magical thinking that prevents us from facing the genuine battles of growing old. Never Say Die speaks to Americans, whatever their...
In Never Say Die, Susan Jacoby delivers a brave, impassioned, and exceptionally important wake-up call to Americans who have long been delud...
