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 sinceSupreme 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
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
A riveting biography of one of America's boldest and most influentialbut
least recognizedFounding 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
"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