Fall books: Reviews

Cover Story in the October 15, 2014 issue

Jesse Kuhn

Our fall books issue includes the following reviews:

David A. Hollinger: America’s Pastor, by Grant Wacker

Timothy Renick: Deeply Divided, by Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos

Edward J. Blum: Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880, by Luke E. Harlow; The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis

Michael S. Hamilton: American Apocalypse, by Matthew Avery Sutton

Gordon Marino: The Deepest Human Life, by Scott Samuelson

Walter Brueggemann: David, by David Wolpe

Jason Byassee: Fail, by J. R. Briggs

Matthew Bowman: Way Below the Angels, by Craig Harline

Amy Frykholm: All My Puny Sorrows, by Miriam Toews

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner: Once in the West, by Christian Wiman

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