Category: Book Reviews

Short, lively profiles of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, including the ones you have never heard of and what signing cost them.

A century-old book of Babylonian parables that still teaches saving, investing and caution better than most modern money guides.

Frazer’s sprawling survey of magic, ritual and religion is outdated as anthropology but still worth reading. His line between magic and faith stayed with me.

A step-by-step method for sales letters that get read. The research and objection chapters are the strongest parts.

Saint John of the Cross on dryness in prayer. The darkness, he says, is often God’s light too bright for us. A classic for anyone who used to feel God.

A plain, warm guide to what Episcopalians believe and why we worship the way we do. The book I now hand to newcomers.