After fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list; God's Politics not only changed the conversation about faith and politics in this country; it began a movement. All across the country; wherever Jim Wallis spoke; people were frustrated by tax cuts and budgets that widened the gap between rich and poor; aggravated by the government's lack of response to natural disasters; wearied of misinformation and the ongoing war in the Middle East; and exasperated by the impractical political rhetoric about sexual abstinence in lieu of policies that would strengthen more broadly family values and community health. Folks began asking what they could do to promote peace; economic justice; racial equality; and the sanctity of life. They wanted to know how they could influence government policies to better reflect their moral values. In response; Wallis and the editors of Sojourners magazine offer Living God's Politics; a reader's guide for putting the lessons of God's Politics into action. Who will change our government's policies to better integrate our values? We're the ones we've been waiting for; and this book offers us the tools and techniques to change the political landscape for the better.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. The information in the book is good. There's extensive coverage of Jefferson's youth and time ...By Since 1998The information in the book is good. There's extensive coverage of Jefferson's youth and time in France. The coverage of his post-presidency seems a bit short. The book seemed to drag on at times. I found myself looking forward to the death of one of our Founding Fathers so I could go on to other subjects.The Kindle translation of this work has problems. There are frequent typos throughout the book. My impression is that the Kindle version was generated from a scan of the printed book and the OCR software wasn't as good as it should have been. This should have been caught by a proofreader. Examples: "I he" should have been "The" and "stoned I.; death" should have been "stoned to death". There are many occurrences of this throughout the book. You can figure out what it means; but it seems shoddy for what should be an academic work.8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Monumental...in size and scope!By M. NeelsI have been familiar with the works of Willard Sterne Randall for some time now. He is best known for his biographies of the notorious Benedict Arnold; and Benjamin Franklin. But he has also written a couple of books about George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. However; I have stared across the room at his monumental life of Thomas Jefferson sitting unread on my bookshelf for several years now. In the doldrums of the winter months of 2013; however; I finally decided to see what the colonial author had to say about the third president of the United States. I soon found out just how much he had to say! This is one of the most thorough treatments of Jefferson's early life that I have personally encountered. Yet; I was compelled to take umbrage with several glaring problems. Firstly; Randall's blatant denial of any romantic relationship between Jefferson and his slave; Sally Hemings; simply cannot go unchallenged. Of course; given the fact that the author wrote this biography in the early 1990s (publication date is 1993)--several years prior to the release of DNA testing that undeniably linked Jefferson's offspring with those of Hemings--this misstatement can be forgiven. Still; unlike Joseph Ellis; who corrected his misstatements about the Jefferson-Hemings relationship in a subsequent edition of his "American Sphynx" published after the DNA results; I have been unable to locate any retraction made by Randall. Another problem with this biography is the uneven amount of time spent on Jefferson's early years as a Virginia lawyer (a profession he is supposed to have hated); and his time as minister to France in the mid-1780s. Both sections of the book offer very in-depth analysis of the life of a Virginian fighting to build a new world through the use of law and reason; as well as the vantage point of an American witness to the end of monarchical France and the start of the French Republic. But; both sections also take up several hundred pages between the two of them; leaving very little room for discussion of Jefferson's terms as Secretary of State; Vice President; and President of the United States. In fact; the later two positions are covered in less than a hundred pages! Lastly--and this is more a fault of the printer than the author--the book suffers from an extremely miniscule font that makes it intensely difficult to maintain focus! All-in-all; I was pleased with the time I spent with Mr. Randall and Mr. Jefferson; especially since Randall spends some time refuting the analysis of Fawn K. Brodie; one of the first authors on Jefferson I ever read. But; while I heartily recommend it to the Jeffersonian enthusiast; I must warn the reader who wishes only a cursory introduction to Jefferson to consider one of the lesser dense biographies--perhaps Bernstein's short introduction.8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Editing ruined a good book.By Brian M. McgowanI'm no historian; I didn't know that Benedict Arnold invaded Virginia in an attempt to captor Jefferson after he turned traitor; so I'm not the best judge of this book. But as an avid reader I liked it; though as one other reviewer stated that; it tended to be repetitive.The editing was the problem with this book and why I gave it only got 4 stars. An intern using Word could have corrected 95% of the spelling errors if they had taken the time. It's the old story with these Kindle editions; they let a computer copy the book and it sees words like "the" and translates it into "I m" leaving you to translate. The one I liked best was when they called the colonies "the American Colonics. "I'm not a spelling or grammar Nazi; but with the difference in word use between then and now; its often hard to figure out whether the quote is the real quote or a misspelling.
