Given the topics of discussion here lately, I thought I'd bring to people's attention a book review in the NY Times of a biography about Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet's brother), preacher extraodinaire from Brooklyn, NY. I'll leave it to the reader to draw analogies from Beecher's life to the contemporary scene: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/books/review/16kazin.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin or http://tinyurl.com/hvws9
The book sounds like an interesting read covering 19th century concerns like abolition, suffrage, evolution, adultery, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, Calvinism, and the "Protestant Century". It may even provide some historical insight into why Americans are so hung up on happiness (as well as material consumption). -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
