New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third book, a collection of ten essays, which address such subjects as religion, history, the state of society - among the ideas she considers are "how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists; how Creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin [which is how 17th century theologist Jean Cauvin is known to us], who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins" Winner of the PEN/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-395-926920.