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86 reviews
Susan Jacoby

Pantheon, 2008

Tracing the Decline of American Culture and the American Intellect
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly. Jay-Z, J. Lo, O.J., Jon Benet, and Jolie. America's Got Talent, Baby Borrowers, Wife Swap, Wipeout, Greatest American Dog, American Gladiators, and I Survived a Japanese Game Show. Creationism, Biblical literalism, open disdain for the "reality-based world," dying newspapers, aliteracy, innumeracy, and anti-intellectualism. Video game addiction, ...

Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

6 reviews
Susan Jacoby

Scribner, 2000

An uniquely impressive, engaging, poignant biography.
Half-Jew is Susan Jacoby's impressive, highly recommended family history in which she shares a meticulous historical research into the suppressed Judaic roots of her personal genealogy. In these pages, Susan writes with compassion, emotional insight, and candor about her father (who was a Roman Catholic convert) and her own search for ancestral roots that led her to the discovery of her ...

Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

74 reviews
Susan Jacoby

Holt Paperbacks, 2005

America's Greatest Gift to the World...
....is secular government, the separation of church and state. Jefferson said it most eloquently when he spoke of a "wall of separation," and for once his actions fully complemented his words. Author Susan Jacoby recounts: "In 1799, Jefferson proposed a bill that would guarantee complete legal equality for citizens of all religions, and of no religion, in his home state of Virginia." Jefferson ...

Soul to Soul: A Black Russian Jewish Woman's Search for Her Roots

2 reviews
Yelena Khanga

W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

A story that would have much interest to anyone.
Really learned a lot about a subject that I knew nothing about. All history is family history. A fascinating story that puts you inside a Russia we never hear about.

Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992

1 review
Yelena Khanga, Susan Jacoby

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994

Great multi-racial family history
I read this book as a book club selection a few years ago. I had doubts about it -- but after I read it--I loved it. Ms. Yelena Khanga is a Black Russian women who discovers her heritage and her love of jounalism. Khanga has such a rich family history, American (Black and white), Russian and African. As she tells her story she is unashame and relentless in detailing the facts - good and bad. Her ...