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  • American Catholics, American Culture

    Tradition and Resistance

    by Peter Steinfels, Peter Steinfels, J Bottum, Gail Buckley, Richard M. Doerflinger, William Donohue, Kenneth J. Doyle, Paul Elie, James T. Fisher, Andrew M. Greeley0, Mark Massa1, Paul Moses2, Susan A. Ross3, Valerie Sayers4, Mary C. Segers5, Mark Silk6, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead7, Kenneth L. Woodward8, Brian Doyle9, Daniel Callahan0, Michele Dillon1, Luke Timothy Johnson2, John T. McGreevy3, Alan Wolfe4, Robert Royal5 ...
    Series series American Catholics in the Public Square
    Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues ... Read more

    $35.69 USD

  • The Future is Now

    America Confronts the New Genetics

    by Eric Cohen, George J. Annas, Ronald Bailey, Sen Christopher "Kit" Bond, J Bottum, Sen Sam Brownback, President George W. Bush, Kenneth L. Connor, Richard M. Doerflinger, Michael J. Fox0, Bill Frist1, Francis Fukuyama2, Robert P. George3, James K. Glassman4, Rep James Greenwood5, Sen Tom Harkin6, Sen Orrin G. Hatch7, Gertrude Himmelfarb8, Aldous Huxley9, Leon R. Kass0, Michael Kinsley1, Charles Krauthammer2, Rep Dennis J. Kucinich3, Joshua Lederberg4, Gilbert Meilaender5, H J. Muller6, National Bioethics Advisory Commission7, Edmund D. Pellegrino8, Rael9, Paul Ramsey0, William Saletan1, Wesley J. Smith2, James A. Thomson3, Laurence H. Tribe4, James D. Watson5, Michael D. West6, Ian Wilmut7, Adam Wolfson8 ...
    This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Royal We

    by Roddy Bottum ...
    A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San FranciscoTHE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle messengers, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Royal We

    A Memoir

    by Roddy Bottum ...
    Narrated by Roddy Bottum ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    A founder of the iconic band Faith No More shares his coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in pre–tech boom San FranciscoThe Royal We is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents through prose his coming of age and out of the closet in 1980s San Francisco, a charged era of bicycle ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • The Christmas Plains

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    A well-respected writer and editor's memoir of childhood Christmases set in the sometimes harsh but always captivating landscape of South Dakota.Wreaths and holly, fruitcakes and mistletoe, ornaments and snowflakes, St. Nick and Scrooge's humbug, Joseph and Mary, a young child in a manger and magi from the East. These words automatically stir up the season of Christmas and invoke memories of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • An Anxious Age

    The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    We live in a profoundly spiritual age, but not in any good way. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Spending the Winter

    A Poetry Collection

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    The poetry of Spending the Winter is musical and structured, whimsical and piercing, begging to be read aloud when one is not laughing or arrested by an image that hooks the heart. “Poems so severely beautiful that they become unforgettable after one reading,” writes one poet. “A throwback to a time when lovers of poetry…looked for poetry of depth, wit, and craft from the likes of Auden and Larkin ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • The Pius War

    Responses to the Critics of Pius XII

    by Joseph Bottum, John S. Conway, Rainer Decker, William Doino Jr, Kevin M. Doyle, Russell Hittinger, John Jay Hughes, Justus George Lawler, Michael Novak0, Ronald J Rychlak1, Robert Louis Wilken2 ...
    In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII-leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War-the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response to the attack on Pius, but their work was scattered in various newspapers, magazines, and ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Frankincense, Gold, and Myrrh

    A Christmas Chrestomathy

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    For over thirty years, Joseph Bottum has been writing widely acclaimed Christmas essays, columns, short stories, and carols for American magazines and newspapers. Now, for the first time, St. Augustine’s Press has gathered a selection of these classic pieces—with a vast range across the Christmas spectrum.There’s the comic: “Tinsel. No one needs tinsel. Even the word is a tinselly kind of word.” ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Decline of the Novel

    by Joseph Bottum ...
    The novel has lost its purpose, Joseph Bottum argues in this fascinating new look at the history of fiction. We have not transcended our need for what novels provide, but we have grown to distrust the culture that allowed novels to flourish. “For almost three hundred years,” Bottum writes, “the novel was a major art form, perhaps the major art form, of the modern world—the device by which, more ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Christians in the Movies

    A Century of Saints and Sinners

    by Peter E. Dans ...
    Christians in the Movies traces the arc of the portrayal in film of Christians from 1905 to the present. For most of the first six decades, the portrayals were favorable and even reverential. By contrast, from 1970 on, Christians have often been treated with hostility and often outright ridicule. This book explores this shift through in-depth reviews and commentaries on 100 important films, as ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The World Is Awake

    A Celebration of Everyday Blessings

    by Linsey Davis ...
    Illustrated by Lucy Fleming ...
    Inspire children to be thankful for all of God’s blessings with this joyful celebration of the simple pleasures all around us. Perfect for sharing at bedtime or story time, The World Is Awake gives children (and their parents) a sense of awe and wonder at the world around them.Linsey Davis, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning ABC News anchor, invites us to celebrate the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD