A Weekly Bulletin from the Editors of Books & Culture Magazine
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
The canonical founding fathers are big business, and an endless source of fascination. (Haven't finished that Hamilton biography yet? Still working on the latest soundings in Jefferson? Better hurry—there's a big new Washington just around the corner, and more on the way.) But the story is too rich, too many-sided to tell via the lives of the greatest alone. In our Book of the Week, Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation (Oxford Univ. Press), prize-winning historian Rhys Isaac gives us another window on the founding era. Reviewer Albert Louis Zambone says the view is absorbing.
What is the theology of hurricane avoidance? How should we pray as the storm crawls our way? In this week's weblog, Nathan Bierma leads with journalist Terry Mattingly's probing of such questions, which Mattingly addressed to a number of clergy.
In articles from the September/October issue, Eugene McCarraher reflects on the centennial of Max Weber's monumental work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and its bearing on our own historical moment, while Joseph Loconte reports on the state of the debate over faith-based social services.
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BOOK OF THE WEEK
A Forgotten Founder's Fatherhood
Race, nature, and patriarchy meet in Rhys Isaac's biography of early American diarist Landon Carter.
Reviewed by Albert Louis Zambone
Paving-stone-sized, hardbound books devoted to particular founding fathers of the American republic have inexhaustibly flooded bookstores over the last two years. Rhys Isaac's Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom is the joker in the pack. We call them "founding fathers," yet we don't think about the fatherly ways in which they worried about their own parenting skills and the future of both their actual and metaphorical offspring. They could be, and often were, very proud of their national fatherhood, but they often were apprehensive when contemplating their offspring's future. As Isaac beautifully reveals, no one expressed this uneasy mixture of pride and worry as well as Landon Carter of Virginia.
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