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Author: Jay Wexler

Prayer in schools? Animal sacrifices in public? Ten Commandments on the courthouse lawn? Jay Wexler has seen it all …

"The sharpest, the most insightful, the most side-splittingly funny book on law since—Supreme Courtship!" —Christopher Buckley, author of Supreme Courtship and Thank You For Smoking

"It's not often that a reader stumbles on a funny book by a constitutional law professor and divinity school graduate.… But author Jay Wexler has managed the unlikely with Holy Hullabaloos."—Boston Globe

"A fascinating and frequently funny journey through many of the sites of the greatest church and state squabbles in modern American history." —Barry Lynn, author of Piety & Politics

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A Killing the Buddha Anthology

“The editors are among the smart, candid, and insightful authors whose personal narratives form the book's 35 brief chapters… Some are funny, others heartbreaking, and some are simply revelatory.…The collection is unified by the contributors' wrestling with received religious traditions and expectations for belief and practice, each articulating a particular moment of the author's life.” —Publishers Weekly

 book cover for The Muse of the Revolution by Kate Clinton

A riveting biography of one of America's boldest and most influential—but least recognized—Founding Mothers.

"Death by lightning, duels, treason, smallpox, 16-page rants written with quill pens, nervous breakdowns. This may sound like the stuff of an overwrought period novel, but it's straightforward fact in Nancy Rubin Stuart's nuanced biography of Mercy Otis Warren." —Kathleen Willcox, Bust

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book cover for My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother; Guard Your Eyes edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh

"My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes aims to corrode fixed ideas and turns cultural and political clichés on their heads.… Iranians themselves live in a complex and schizophrenic reality, at a surreal crossroads between political Islam and satellite television, massive national oil revenues, and searing social inequalities." —From the Introduction

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