An American Gospel by Erik Reece
From the award-winning author of Lost Mountain, a stirring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry.At the age of thirty-three, Erik Reece's father, a Baptist minister, took his own life, leaving Erik in the care of his grandmother and his grandfather-also a fundamentalist Baptist preacher, and a pillar of his rural Virginia community. While Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he unexpectedly found comfort in the Jefferson Bible. Inspired by the text, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest to identify an "American gospel" coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to William James to Lynn Margulis. The result of Reece's journey is a deeply intimate, stirring book about personal, political, and historical demons-and the geniuses we must call upon to combat them.
ERIK REECE is a University of Kentucky assistant professor of English and the author of several books, including Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594484452 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594484457 |
| Title | An American Gospel |
| Author | Erik Reece |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2010-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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