The primary purpose of this project has been to leave a description of middle-class American life as experienced during the second quarter of the 20th century to those in my kinship system who were born decades later.This collection of autobiographical vignettes --for which I plead guilty of enhancing with fictitious dialogue in order to craft a story --provides a literary context for reconstructing the actual events, only segments of which are sequestered in memory. In other words, I am determined that in so doing I am involved as much in explanation as I am in entertaining. I am acutely...

The primary purpose of this project has been to leave a description of middle-class American life as experienced during the second quarter of the 20th century to those in my kinship system who were born decades later.This collection of autobiographical vignettes --for which I plead guilty of enhancing with fictitious dialogue in order to craft a story --provides a literary context for reconstructing the actual events, only segments of which are sequestered in memory. In other words, I am determined that in so doing I am involved as much in explanation as I am in entertaining. I am acutely...

Reader Alert The thrust of "A Contemporary Evaluation of Lutheranism" is identified in the subtitle-"A Spiritual Odyssey." Thus the author provides substantiating details as to why his very own personal faith journey reads more like a polemic. Dr. Baumbach's study of the "Symbolic Books of Lutheranism" has transformed his perception of Lutheran doctrine. That is, much of Lutheran doctrine-as well as much of Christian doctrine-have been based upon the historicalization of myth. Hence, this book is not "a call to arms." Rather, the author hopes that it might provoke others, conscientiously and...