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• Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality

  - 2005-03-20

  Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality by Philip Jenkins, New York, Oxford University Press, 2005, 249 pp. MohawkSaint:Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits by Alan Greer, New York, Oxford University Press, 2004, 306 pp. Last week on a professional development day, I was invited, along with a...

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• New Book in Oxford Portraits Series.(Review) (book review)

  - 2000-03-01

  Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Naomi Pasachoff. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. ISBN: 0-19-512222-4, 160 pp. $22. This new biography for young adult readers covers the professional career of Frances Perkins from her time as a social worker lobbyist to ...

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• W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I, The Apprentice Mage.(Review) (book review) (book review)

  - 2000-01-01

  W.B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I, The Apprentice Mage. By R. E Foster. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxii, 640. $35.00.) Biographies of poet-dramatists are usually reviewed in literary, not historical, journals. Yet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) probably had...

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• All mild, no bitter

  - 1997-05-31

  A LIFE IN OXFORD by Anthony Kenny John Murray, 20, pp. 249 Autobiography is a desperately difficult art. Should it be content to have the interest that a biography has which one reads only because one is already interested in its subject? Or should it have the qualities of a...

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