Book Review - period ended 1.15.2007

Book Review/Quaker Schools/Quaker History/Paine, Thomas/Thomas Paine: A Neglected Founding Father?/WNYC/New York/NY/USA/4-Jan-07//Biographer Craig Nelson tells us why he feels that Thomas Paine deserves more recognition as a founding father.

Book Review/Retirement///Utopian Dreams/Scotsman/Edinburgh/Scotland/UK/14-Jan-07//Despite the different locations, philosophies, sizes, successes and failures of the five utopias visited here, Jones fails to make any truly memorable. As the journey continues through a Quaker retirement community in York, and back to Sicily to a community which puts seized Mafiosa land to socially useful purposes, Jones uses his experiences to spin off into philosophical ponderings. ...

Book Review/Intentional Community/Hartrigg Oaks//I want to live like commune people/The Observer/London/England/UK/6-Jan-07//His time at the Quaker village of Hartrigg Oaks in Yorkshire leads to an accomplished dissection of compensation culture and the failure of moral law. ...

Book Review/Intentional Community/Hartrigg Oaks//A restless spirit trapped in a secular world/The Sunday Times/London/England/USA/6-Jan-07//In search of a more inclusive creed, Jones travels to the Quaker model village of New Earswick, near York, founded on Joseph Rowntree’s chocolate money, ...

Book Review/Intentional Community/Hartrigg Oaks//Review: Utopian Dreams by Tobias Jones/Guardian Unlimited/London/England/UK/5-Jan-07//He visits Quaker bungalows, Catholic foster parents and farms built on confiscated Mafia land where recovering drug addicts press premium olive oil. ...

Book Review/Gulley, Phil///Book Notes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/St. Louis/MO/USA/4-Jan-07//Philip Gulley, a Quaker minister who wrote "If Grace Is True," the novel "Life Goes On" and other titles, will be keynote speaker at the 2007 Missouri ...

Book Review/Communist/Chambers, Whittaker/Partisanship vs. patriotism/Washington Times/Washington/DC/USA/7-Jan-07//... In his carefully researched, "Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case," a 675-page book published in 1978, Mr. Weinstein honored the Founders' commitment to the rule of law by documenting the truth about the impassioned Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers "spy case" during which those two men became almost mythic figures in the early Cold War years.
In the highly charged political climate of the time, many Americans dismissed Chambers' charge that Hiss was a Soviet spy. With rising passion, prominent Americans were at loggerheads over the guilt or innocence of the smooth, Eastern Establishment Hiss and the veracity of Chambers, a former communist turned Quaker, whose brilliant book, "Witness" (1952), will stand the test of time. Those of us who lived those turbulent times cannot forget the hidden Pumpkin Papers and the incriminating typewriter. t ...