This book does not even begin to deliver what it promises. A genuine dialogue between humanists and believing Mormons could have been interesting. This "dialogue," essentially between humanists and unbelieving Mormons whom it is impossible to distinguish from humanists in any meaningful way, offers almost nothing of substance or real interest.

This book was spurred by the excommunication of several church members in the early 90's. The specific issues addressed now appear dated. I read the book several years ago when it first came out. Even then, the discussions just did not capture my interest and did not cover any new ground.

I found 'Anatomy of Freedom' to be pretentious, boring, and completely divorced from reality. Even though this book is ostensibly about feminism, Morgan takes care to avoid making any mention of actual problems like job discrimination, in favor of sweeping generalities about abolishing the present system of patriarchy, and civil rights for middle-schoolers.

When this book was written, 'Godel, Escher, Back: An Eternal Golden Braid' was high in the pop-culture consciousness. 'GEB' makes use of a dialectic technique to clarify and illustrate principles such as recursion. However, Morgan's characters all speak with her voice. It's like watching 'Robin Morgan and the Seven Robin Morgans', followed by 'Robin Morgan Knows Best'. It's self-indulgent drivel that goes on far too long.

Morgan also uses the New Physics as a metaphor for society. ('Society' does not include economics here, of course.) We read about quantum physics and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which was developed in the 1920s) and watch as Morgan attempts to stuff her ideas about a vague, idealistic egalitarianism into electrons and tachyons. It's enough to make anyone with the vaguest respect for science cringe.

This book's only positive use is as an example of 'bad'. It starts nowhere, twirls around in pretty but meaningless circles, and ends up where it started, without having once touched down on the cold, hard ground of reality.

The value that this book has is probably due to the fact that you can carry around some of the most important documents in human history. It's just such a shame that I can do that better and for free using the Internet.

This book is so biased in favor of Gates, a man of very debatable reputation and capabilities, that it is virtually worthless. Patterson becomes a contortionist in his transparent attempts to rehabilitate Gates, missing many of the key details with sloppy mistakes and poor analysis. The only reason I gave this one star is because I could not give it zero stars.

James Dunn was a flake who alienated everyone in the Baptist Joint Committee for Public Affairs, and he may have even fatally wounded the body now that the Southern Baptist Convention no longer participates. The blames rests solely on his shoulders for demolishing the BJCPA and causing friction within Baptist life in North America. He was perhaps the most disasterous president the BJCPA ever had.

This is a pathetic book. The author is an expelled Jesuit who has married a Hollywood Starlette and tries to justify his disobedience by sending out questionaires to the American Catholic Bishops, the majority whom ignore him. Then he uses the returned questionares to try to justify his leaving the Jesuits and marrying. The book fails to make his point and is totally boring .

Much of what Boland writes seems to be references to other men's work. I wanted this book to be so much more. Too bad

I went into this book with great anticipation, but it left me cold. The prose is as dry as month-old bread. Good luck keeping your eyes open during this monotonous read. The book mentions that Hall is a college professor. For his students' sake, I can only hope that his classes are more interesting than this book. Avoid this book unless you are an imsomniac.

If the meaning of liberty is the act of enslaving innocent men, women and children, (throughout their natural lives), then I completely agree with the "scholars" that compiled this book. If not, I disagree.
In the same vein, I would have no comments if any horizontal 'scholar' emerges tomorrow with a book titled, "Osama Bin-Laden: The Genius of Justice".
Well, this book, ("Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty"), made mockery of its subject. It swarms with undeserved sycophantic accolades. Professor Ellis edited it shortly before he came of age. Its contents are no accident. Call it the irony of 'a civilized world'.
My dear, you will like this book if you are fanatical about anything U.S.A. However, if you are a conscientious patriot, who strives to be morally reasonable (no matter what), do not bother to read it. It does not worth your time. It contains more praise-songs than honest analyses. It profanes the very ideals that you would expect it to protect.
Thomas Jefferson and true liberty are at best, two parallel lines. They have nothing in common, and will never meet.