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An undercover exploration of the world of evangelicals, offering an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at the faithful

Ever since evangelical Christians rose to national prominence, mainstream America has tracked their every move with a nervous eye. But in spite of this vigilance, our understanding hasn’t gone beyond the caricatures. Who are evangelicals, really? What are they like in private, and what do they want? Is it possible that beneath the differences in culture and language, church and party, we might share with them some common purpose?

To find out, Gina Welch, a young secular Jew from Berkeley, joined Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church. Over the course of nearly two years, Welch immersed herself in the life and language of the devout: she learned to interpret the world like an evangelical, weathered the death of Falwell, and embarked on a mission trip to Alaska intended to save one hundred souls. Alive to the meaning behind the music and the mind behind the slogans, Welch recognized the allure of evangelicalism, even for the godless, realizing that the congregation met needs and answered questions she didn’t know she had.

What emerges is a riveting account of a skeptic’s transformation from uninformed cynicism to compassionate understanding, and a rare view of how evangelicals see themselves. Revealing their generosity and hopefulness, as well as their prejudice and exceptionalism, In the Land of Believers is a call for comprehending, rather than dismissing, the impassioned believers who have become so central a force in American life.

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• Published on: 2010-03-02
• Released on: 2010-03-02
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A secular Jew raised by a single mother in Berkeley, Welch became an outsider in a strange land when in 2002 she moved for graduate school to the heart of the Bible Belt near Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. She saw everything around her ironically, treated the South “as a joke” and her time there “as a kind of elaborate performance art project.” Then something miraculous happened. The jaded Californian began to like Virginia. She’d arrived to a Virginia on the verge of a demographic shift as a new, progressive population burgeoned. But she also grew to like the Old South—its manners, easygoing nature, and friendliness. She got serious, cast aside her cynicism, and sought to know her evangelical neighbors “as people.” Why did they think as they did? Why were they so determined “to convert non-Christian America?” She went “undercover” to attend Falwell’s church. The resultant portrayal of evangelicals as she sees them and of how she transcended the popular media caricatures of them constitute an insightful, frequently funny book. --June Sawyers

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“Excellent prose with a laudable purpose: to promote understanding of evangelical Christians... 
An engaging, personal look at one variant of Christian fundamentalism.”
—Library Journal “Memorable... A genuinely inquisitive memoir about the complicated nature of religious belief.”
—Kirkus Reviews “With compassion, wit, and verve, Gina Welch has gone where few secular liberals have dared to go—the late Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church—and emerged with a compelling story that transcends stereotypes and builds common ground. Both sides of the Great American Culture War should read this refreshing call for a cease-fire.”
—Kevin Roose, author of The Unlikely Disciple “Gina Welch’s story of her immersion in Jerry Falwell’s Evangelical church is riveting. Welch is a fair, compassionate, very smart writer—and one of the most arresting narrators I’ve encountered in a half-century of reading.”
—John Casey, author of Spartina

About the Author

Gina Welch, a 2001 graduate of Yale University, teaches English at George Washington University. Her writing has previously appeared in Meridian, Time Out New York, and Playboy. This is her first book.

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Spying on the Folk That Read the Good Book
By Smith's Rock
Gina Welch's In the Land of the Believers left me disturbed. To be fair, this might be my baseline state, per friends and family. But if one measure of a book's success is to get under the skin of the reader and stay there for awhile, In the Land of the Believers most definitely succeeds in this category.

The premise of this non-fiction book is simple: Gina Welch, a born and reared non-believer, goes undercover to join Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church (TRBC) in Lynchburg, Virginia, in a purported attempt to understand what she terms "Evangelicals". Welch contrasts herself with the Evangelicals: "I am a secular Jew raised by a single mother in Berkeley.... I cuss, I drink, and I am not a virgin." Falwell's church, ground zero for the now-eclipsed Moral Majority, was close enough geographically to serve Welch's purpose.

Welch starts with a trip to Scaremare, a church sponsored haunted house (termed a "hell house") designed to both metaphorically and literally scare the Hell out of participants. From this spooky beginning, Welch moves on to joining a TRBC sponsored singles group, EPIC (Experiencing Personal Intimacy with Christ), eventually being baptized (full immersion) and travelling to Alaska on a mission to capture one hundred souls for Christ (final tally 101 souls).

While the premise is simple, execution of the plan becomes complicated by Welch's penchant for developing relationships with the people she has gone undercover to observe. What might have been a documentary fact-finding expedition becomes instead a memoir about Welch herself as she gradually discovers that the church members are not caricatures, but humans, and how this discovery affects her. The primary theme evolves into a line written on the last page of the book (excluding the Epilogue): "So this--this became the basis of my love for Evangelicals: I was going to choose to see the mystical oneness. And once I started to see it that way, loving them wasn't very hard to do." Not "very" hard, but still hard. And therein lays a portion of what begins to get under my skin.

In the beginning of this tale, Welch sets the conflict up well. She describes her thoughts about TRBC pastor Jerry Falwell: "I considered him a homophobe, a fearmonger, a manipulator, and a misogynist--an alien creature from the most extreme backwater of evangelical culture." By the end of the story? Gina's feelings are...the same. Except that now she has some sincere affection for the old boy. Welch lays out her pre-conceptions about Evangelicals at the beginning of the story: "They were shrill and prudish, they loved bad music and guns and Nascar, told corny jokes, and spoke in sound bites.." By the end of the tale, she confirms all of the above, and adds on several occasions that Evangelicals have a very raunchy sense of humor. Additionally, we know that Evangelical men have an affinity for heavily pomaded hair (or conversely, shaved heads), and Evangelical women have a propensity for bright lipstick and clothing that brings to mind the Confederate Railroad country song lyrics "I like my women a little on the trashy side."

Why might this be disturbing? Welch states "The collateral damage of going undercover, I thought, was mitigated by the possibility that the enterprise would open channels of understanding writ large between Evangelicals and the rest of us." Given that the Evangelicals in the book, with rare exceptions, conform to Welch's pre-conceptions, it's a reach to say that her justification for deception succeeded in its aim.

One might ask about the notion of going undercover in the first place. Keep in mind that going undercover is something usually, if not always, done to investigate criminal activity. The FBI infiltrates extremist groups, with the aim of preventing terrorist acts. Investigative reporters go undercover to document crimes or corruption in progress. The CIA goes undercover to spy on enemies (ideally). The theme of undercover is this: It is justified only when significant harm to a community or a nation is threatened. Must one go undercover to investigate people legally accessing their freedom of religion? Welch's comment: "I sort of managed to balance the whole messy moral equation on an unsteady ball bearing of cliché: You have to break some eggs to make an omelette." Yes, Gina. But people are not eggs, and your omelette was not improved understanding of Evangelicals, it was a book from which profit will derive.

So, I'll come clean here about being disturbed. Two of my four brothers, and one of my three sisters, are Evangelicals. They are richly developed human beings, and each possess a broad and well developed sense of humor. My brothers don't pomade their hair. My sister dresses impeccably. Each of them contributes to the whole community that they live in, not just the narrow confines of their church communities. Welch would have learned far more about Evangelicals by simply introducing herself and talking to my siblings than by her elaborate deception. My siblings DO open channels of understanding between themselves and others that see the world differently.

Me? I'm a non-believer. I'm a work-my-tail-off-for-my-community, school board member, charity donating, non-believer. I feel no need to lie to my siblings, my patients (I'm a family physician), or my community about my views in order to "open channels of understanding." I just ask people questions, and answer them, a process that works amazingly well to promote understanding. And when a non-believer feels the need to participate in a two year long deception to get information available for the asking, it damages by association the reality of the integrity that so many non-believers take pride in. This disturbs me. In The Land of the Believers is an interesting book, Gina Welch is an above average writer, and discussion will be lively if your book club chooses it. That creepy feeling under my skin, though, will be there a long while.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
The Story of an Atheist at Thomas Road
By Trevin Wax
Ever wonder how a committed unbeliever would feel in your church service?

Have you ever given thought to how evangelicals are viewed by those outside the church?

How many of your friends disagree with you politically? Theologically?

In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church (Metropolitan, 2010) tells the story of Gina Welch. The book gives readers a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of Thomas Road Baptist Church (the church Jerry Falwell pastored) through the eyes of an atheistic, secularist, liberal young woman.

Welch faked a conversion experience, got baptized, and spent two years at Thomas Road. (She even participated in evangelism on a mission trip.) During this time, she kept a detailed journal of her experience, which she has now turned into a book that chronicles her journey into evangelical America.

If you're like me, your first reaction upon hearing about a book like this is to roll your eyes and think, Oh great! An exposé of evangelicals from someone who deliberately engaged in deceptive practices in order to show up evangelical hypocrisy. That was my initial reaction. But after reading a number of reviews, I was intrigued enough to pick up the book. I was pleasantly surprised by Welch's portrayal of evangelicals, and I was riveted by her account. While I abhor the deceit that grounds this book, I recommend that evangelicals read it for a number of reasons.

1. Unmasking Intolerant Tolerance

First, Welch clearly understands that "intolerance" is not a label that sticks only to the Religious Right. Coming from a liberal, secular background, Welch saw people within her circles speaking intolerantly of evangelicals. She realized that relying on the common stereotypes of evangelicals was leading her to an inaccurate picture:

I vacuumed up information about evangelicals, feeling it was necessary to educate myself... And yet the more I learned, the less I understood. My anthropological inquiries lit up only the most alarming fragments of the evangelical picture, turning up the contrast and blacking out the relatable qualities. They were shrill and prudish, they loved bad music and guns and NASCAR, told corny jokes and spoke in sound bites, were unshakably loyal to exposed liars, and their children were going to bully our children into prayer. They were scary, all right, but they didn't seem quite real... I wanted to try to take them on their own terms. Who, exactly, did they think they were?" (4-5)

Welch helpfully demonstrates that ignorance, intolerance and insularity can be just as much a characteristic of the Left as it can be of the Right. I appreciate the fact that Welch recognizes this inconsistency that is common in her circles.

2. Pointing Out Evangelical Inconsistencies

Another reason why this book is helpful is because Welch has no qualms about pointing out things she didn't quite understand. She is remarkably fair-minded in her portrayal of evangelicals, but she doesn't shy away from pointing out our inconsistencies. Some of these are big blind spots that we ought to consider.

Here are some examples:

Is getting saved to avoid hell a good motivation for becoming a Christian or not? Thomas Road gave her a conflicting answer. Welch's first encounter with this church was through "Scaremare" - a sort of "hell house" intended to scare you into the kingdom. But later she recalled a testimony that contradicted this sort of evangelism:

"Woody accepted the Lord when he was nine years old, but he only did it because he was afraid of going to hell. He said this mockingly, as if it was a cowardly reason, which I thought was a little odd considering the whole shake-'em-to-wake-'em conceit of Scaremare." (57)

Is quick conversion an evidence of success, or faithful discipleship? Listen to how she questions the "easy-believism" she sees at the church:

"How can you know if you've saved someone if there's never follow-up, never counseling, never a progress report? How can you be sure the person hasn't instantly reverted to his old ways? In other words, aren't you simply counting the people who prayed the prayer in that instant rather than counting new Christians?... If you're a sincere Christian you believe all it takes is that instant, as long as you're sincere. Once you've prayed the sinner's prayer, you're good to go. God is supposed to abide in you and guide you, but really your `ways' don't matter. Your name is written forever in the Lamb's book of life.' It seemed evident that evangelicals were padding their rosters." (254)

Is tithing motivated by gratitude or by a desire for financial reward? Welch writes that teaching on stewardship seemed like a way to get more from God, a sort of "card game strategy" (38).

Is there any distinction between giving to God and giving to the Church? Welch writes:

"I had always wondered how evangelicals regarded the gap between church and God. The answer, apparently, was that they didn't worry about it. When they gave, it wasn't that they implicitly trusted the church. They trusted God, who would see their offering and furnish their reward in heaven." (149)

If salvation is about making a conscious choice to believe the gospel, why the emphasis on baptizing small kids? Here Welch puts her finger on an issue I have posted about before. Two hundred years ago, most Baptists didn't baptize children under 18. Today, most Baptist congregations outside the U.S. still refrain from baptizing small children. Welch describes children's baptism in a way that should stir up numerous discussions about the nature of true faith:

"Here at Thomas Road, they baptize a lot of children who grow up in the church. When this happens, the child is often so small that he can't walk down into the pool - one pastor floats the child off into the arms of the baptizing pastor like a paper boat. When the child is immersed, sometimes he's so light that he has to be pushed under. And sometimes his legs fly up out of the water. This seemed strange to me: Woody had told me they didn't baptize babies at the church because they believed a person had to choose to get saved, had to understand what it meant to be a sinner and to have Jesus sacrifice on your behalf. How could a little child apprehend these concepts?" (82)

3. An Outsider's View of the Evangelical Church

Here's one more reason why you should read this book: Welch alerts us to the kind of vocabulary we employ, including the use of some words which seem to have no meaning. For example, what exactly is a "personal relationship with Jesus"? Welch writes:

"You often hear evangelicals use an inscrutable expression to describe their faith. They call it `a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.' For a literal thinker like me, those words had a corporate-speak detachment from content." (91)

"I still had a hard time holding on to an understanding of these words - a personal relationship with God. As in you and God stay up late talking? As in you and God are secret shares? I mean, I knew the rhetoric - an intimate relationship with God and a willingness to put Jesus first was the outward manifestation of real Christianity..."

"Evangelical language was a language of its own, where the rhetoric often didn't mean what the words seemed to signify in English. Words were encoded symbols used to describe feelings evangelicals understood. Sometimes I was able to understand these feelings and crack the code on a turn of the phrase. But not so with the personal relationship with God. With this I scraped and scraped for a more direct meaning, but each layer I revealed was just another picture of a picture." (236)

Welch also points out the subordination of the mind to the heart as a common theme in her evangelical journey:

"Brains could rationalize sin; hearts would hold us accountable. And so evangelicals acted according to what God told their spiritual organ, following whatever feelings were glowing inside them." (123)

This anti-intellectualism is certainly a problem in many evangelical circles, although not in all.

Final Thoughts

Reading through this book, I sometimes cringed at the portrayal of evangelicals here - not because Welch's picture was inaccurate, but because it was so on target. But I fear that my embarrassment at some of the expressions of low-culture evangelicalism is rooted in pride. So... despite my distaste for some of the typical expressions of evangelical faith, I must remember that these people are my brothers and sisters. Part of Christian maturity is recognizing that we are all a bunch of bungling believers. I'm often just as inconsistent and embarrassing as they seem to be.

I also felt torn between my distaste for Welch's journalistic tactics and a sincere desire for her to see beyond some of the evangelical silliness to the glory of Jesus Christ. I found myself hoping for a different ending, that she might recognize her sin and her need for a Savior. I still hope and pray that may be the case.

I wonder how her story would have been altered had she chosen a different church. Evangelicals are a diverse bunch of people. What if she had gone to Redeemer Presbyterian in New York? Or Saddleback Church? Or First Baptist Dallas? How would her story have changed?

In the end, get this book. It's well worth your time. Read it. Learn from it. Pass it on to others.

38 of 48 people found the following review helpful.
A viewpoint worth exploring
By Kay Harrisonburg, VA
When Gina Welch, a secular Jew from California, decided to infiltrate the world of Thomas Road Baptist Church (Jerry Falwell, founding pastor) in Virginia, it seems she had preconceived ideas of what she would find. She was surprised.

Instead of discovering a people who mindlessly followed charismatic leaders, Gina found sincere believers who were part of a loving community. She soon found herself drawn into the fellowship of people who honestly cared about her. Somewhere along the way, she came to love the music and found genuine friends.

While reading this book, I was surprised and challenged at several points. Because I am a Christian, sometimes it was a stretch to understand Gina's viewpoint and why she found certain aspects of the Christian culture peculiar. What she pointed out was often I the way I think and talk. I found it revealing and important to see the Christian culture from an outsider's viewpoint.

As I looked closely at my motivation for choosing this book, I realized my expectations were also unsupported. While the followers of Falwell's ministries are professing Christians, I express my Christian beliefs differently in some ways. As I read, I realized I had hoped that Gina would confirm my approach to the faith as a better approach.

To the contrary, I found myself humbled. As Gina described her experience, I found I have more in common with the people she encountered than differences, especially in terms of love for others and the essentials of faith.

Gina, the people you met at church are the people who accepted you, forgave your deception and still desire a relationship with you. They pointed to a God who still desires a relationship with you. Keep searching.

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Wolff follows her rich portrait of a gifted young musician (The Mozart Season, 1991, ALA Notable) with a spare, beautifully crafted depiction of a 14-year-old whose goal of escaping poverty is challenged by friendship with a single teenage mother. With the support of her widowed mom, who's always made ends meet, LaVaughn sets her sights on college but knows she'll have to come up with the money herself. Taking a job caring for Jolly's babies while Jolly works, she's soon enmeshed in the young woman's problems--especially after Jolly is fired for spurning a harassing boss. Deeply concerned for the feckless, near- illiterate 17-year-old's welfare, LaVaughn is tempted to give her the money she's saved; yet (as marvelously encapsulated in LaVaughn's internal debate) she makes the tough decision that ``That won't help...I feel very mixed but my eyes stay steady.'' With difficulty (Jolly's too proud to ask for welfare and fears losing her children), she persuades her to enter a high-school program for young mothers. It's best for both--Jolly begins to ``take hold'' of her life--but bittersweet: while LaVaughn's grades go back up, she must relinquish her beloved charges. LaVaughn's narrative--brief, sometimes ungrammatical sentences in uneven lines, like verse--is in a credible teenage voice suited to readers like Jolly herself; yet it has the economy and subtlety of poetry. These girls could be from more than one ethnic group and almost any inner city--the setting is deliberately vague; but their troubles--explored in exquisite specificity--are universal. Hopeful--and powerfully moving. (Fiction. 10+) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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The audio version of the novel was good however the sound quality volume wise could have been better.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade!
By Candies Winfun
Virginia Euwer Wolff's, Make Lemonade, is a great award winning young adult fiction book. It is an open verse written book that talks about the hardships of a family. While Verna Lavaughn is trying to make extra money for college she does so by taking a babysitting job. Little did she know that by babysitting for a 17-year-old mother of two, she was taking on a big responsibility that ultimately turned into a great friendship. The book is mainly about Lavaughn's teenage life. It told about how when life gave her lemons, or hard situations, she made lemonade by making the best of the situations. The book was filled with unexpected drama. It left you in awe about what could possibly happen next. Lavaughn's mother became a single parent after her father died during her childhood days. Her mother was a very controlling parent, however, she only wanted what was best for her daughter and wanted life to be much better than the life she lead. Because they were poor, Lavaughn's mother made sure that she would get a scholarship for school by staying on her to be an honor roll student. She knew this would be the only way she could perhaps get into any college. In her efforts to earn money for college, Lavaughn answered an ad from the activity board for a babysitting job. She persuaded her mother to allow her to do this job for extra money although her mother was not very fond of the idea. To Lavaughn's surprise she took a job that put her in a not so familiar yet strange place. Lavaughn begins to work for Jolly by taking care of her children in the home; which is on the worse side of the city. Jolly, the two children's mother, is uneducated. She did not graduate from high school. Their father left them shortly after Jolly gave birth. Later in the story, Lavaughn's grades begin to decrease and Jolly lost her job. She has to make a big decision whether or not to keep babysitting for Jolly because she could no longer get paid monetarily. She also has to decide if she wants to get paid with material things- money or internally- a great feeling of knowing you have helped someone. If you would like to teach a lesson using stories of reality this would be a great book to use. It shows how when life gives you hard situations just make the best of them. When life gives you lemons make lemonade!!! Read the book for a great ending.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
MAKE LEMONADE
By Susannah
In the novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwe Wolff, is a terrific book that tells about a fourteen year old girl named LaVaughn who helps a teen mom get back on her feet. LaVaughn is a hardworking and an A student who is determined to get into a scholarship to a good college so she can get as far away as she can from this town and get a respectable job. Jolly is a teenage mother with two children who is barely making the money for her rent and is in desparate need of a baby sitter. LaVaughn, deciding she needs all the money she can get if not to recieve a scholarship to college willingly takes the sitting job. Soon after jolly gets layed off from her job and can't pay LaVaughn anymore. Read on and see how LaVaughn helps Jolly take control of her life once again.
Some aspects of the books that i enjoyed reading was how descriptive the writer was about Jolly's house. The author would go on about the cockraoches crawling all over the walls and the gunk stuck in between the floor panels that no one would dare touch and try to clean up. This was told in such great detail that while I was readng this book I had a complete picture of Jolly's house. Another aspect that I liked about the book was LaVaughn's perserverance. LaVaughn keeps above average grades, baby-sits, and on top of that helps her mother around the house. All while she is doing this she keeps a strong hold of things and never gives up. I, personaly think she is a very good role model. I also liked how real the hardships of Jolly and LaVaughn had to face. The author mentioned things like Jolly not having enough money for diapers anymore and how vermins were living in her house like there were suppose to be there. I liked this because if they didn't have problems to face then there would be no point to this book at all. On the other hand i also disliked how there needed to have at least one more element to have to overcome. Lastly I disliked LaVaughns mother's attitude towards Jolly. LaVaughn's mother thought that Jolly was an irrespnsible and clueless mother. I think she was being to quick to judge someone she doesn't even know. I would reccamend this book to children wholike short but heartfelt books on family ties.

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"Engaging . . . With a novelist's eye for biographical detail, Epps has written an . . . enthralling book."―David W. Blight, Chicago Tribune

The last battle of the Civil War wasn't fought at Appomattox by dashing generals or young soldiers but by middle-aged men in frock coats. Yet it was war all the same―a desperate struggle for the soul and future of the new American Republic that was rising from the ashes of Civil War. It was the battle that planted the seeds of democracy, under the bland heading "Amendment XIV." Scholars call it the "Second Constitution." Over time, the Fourteenth Amendment―which at last provided African Americans with full citizenship and prohibited any state from denying any citizen due process and equal protection under the law―changed almost every detail of our public life.

Democracy Reborn tells the story of this desperate struggle, from the halls of Congress to the bloody streets of Memphis and New Orleans. Both a novelist and a constitutional scholar, Garrett Epps unfolds a powerful story against a panoramic portrait of America on the verge of a new era.

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• Published on: 2007-09-04
• Released on: 2007-09-04
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In December 1865, the 39th Congress had urgent business, says Epps in this passionate account of Reconstruction politics. If the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union, ex-slaves would swell those states' congressional power, but without congressional protection, the freedmen would never be allowed to vote, and the Southern white elite would have disproportionate influence in the federal government. Epps follows every twist of Congress's response to this problem, and his energetic prose transforms potentially tedious congressional debates into riveting reading. He illuminates the fine points, such as the distinction in the 19th century between civil rights—relating to property and employment, which many thought blacks should have—and political rights, which some thought only educated men of wealth should have. Congressmen were not the only people energized by the conundrums of electoral representation. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton petitioned for women's suffrage on the same grounds as blacks. While Congress hammered out the 14th and 15th Amendments, white Southerners were putting in place the Jim Crow codes that would subvert those amendments until the 1960s. As constitutional scholar and novelist Epps (The Shad Treatment) notes in a rousing afterword, there are many corners in which they are not fully realized today. 7 pages of b&w illus. (Sept. 1)
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“The Civil War amendments redeemed the Constitution from the slavery concessions that had betrayed its preamble and perpetuated human bondage both North and South. Garrett Epps' new book is indispensable reading for Americans to know how our constitutional history has affected us all. A combination of the finest scholarship with unsurpassed insight.” ―William Van Alstyne, Perkins Professor of Law emeritus, Duke University; Lee Professor of Constitutional Law, College of William and Mary

“Garret Epps is one of our best legal historians, and he has produced a fascinating book on the creation and impact of the 14th Amendment. The people who wrote our Constitution were America's original Founders, but the amazing group that produced the 14th Amendment were like our second wave of Founders, helping our nation be reborn into the democracy it is today.” ―Walter Isaacson, author, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“It is best to be blunt. This is a thrilling book. Garrett Epps has woven together the tragic strands of America's effort to deal with the issue of race in the Constitution. Law, politics and statecraft clash in a great drama.” ―Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet

“Garrett Epps is one of the most fluid and accessible writers in the legal academy. Not surprisingly, he has written a marvelous overview of immediate post-Civil War politics that gave us the Fourteenth Amendment and, as importantly, a new understanding of the American experiment.” ―Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution: How the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It)

About the Author

Garrett Epps is the author of The Shad Treatment and The Floating Island: A Tale of Washington. He is Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law where he teaches constitutional law and a special course in creative writing for law students. Epps writes fiction and poetry as well as nonfiction, and has translated or adapted literature into English from both Spanish and Italian. He has two children, Daniel and Maggie.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Unrealized attempt for justice (4.25*s)
By J. Grattan
This book primary focuses on the legislative efforts of the Congressional Republicans in the year of 1866, within the 39th Congress, to counter the lenient policies of President Johnson towards the vanquished Southern states. By far their most important legislative act was the formulation of the Fourteenth Amendment in June, 1866, which clarified and expanded the meaning and scope of the Bill of Rights. That amendment along with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which granted US citizenship to all born in the US and the "same right ... to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens," was truly transformative of the Constitutional landscape of the US, especially to the new freedmen.

Johnson had been an ardent pro-Unionist during the War, having been selected the military governor of occupied Tennessee in 1862. Upon assuming the presidency in April, 1865, after Lincoln's assassination, he vowed to "punish and impoverish" the Southern traitors. However, in an extraordinary about face, he quickly granted amnesty, restoring full citizenship and confiscated property, to all except the most prominent Confederates, and they had only to declare loyalty to the Union and apply for a pardon. He basically enabled Southern oligarchs to resume the domination of freedmen - or in other words re-establish de facto slavery. Clearly, his anti-black sentiments outweighed his earlier class-based anger at the aristocratic, planter secessionists. Johnson is the major figure throughout the book and is portrayed in highly unflattering terms. His drunken speech at his inauguration was only a small window into a rigid, impulsive, belligerent, vindictive, and self-important personality. He absolutely could not accept or grasp that the Civil War had shifted the ground beneath his states' rights, Jacksonian principles of a Union consisting only of white men.

The Republicans were not all of one stripe; a moderate faction was desirous of reconciliation with the South. But Johnson's swift accommodation of Southern interests was alarming to the entire Republican Party. His allowance of Southern state elections under their old constitutions in 1865 of Congressman was about to give the Democrats the votes to block Reconstruction legislation. Furthermore, the freedmen, though still disenfranchised, would count as full persons in allocating representation adding to Southern power after the 1870 census. Equally disturbing was the passage of so-called Black Codes throughout the South that disallowed idleness and forced freedmen to work under year-long labor contracts, barred freedmen from living in cities, restricted their occupations, required passes to move freely, allowed harsh punishments for minor infractions, took children from families to apprenticed to former masters, and the like. Those Codes were enforced by vigilantes, thus establishing a reign of terror in parts of the South. The newly elected representatives were not seated through creative technical maneuvers, but the Republicans could only see the old, monolithic Slave Power and its control at both the local and national level firmly on the road to restoration. The formal freedom guaranteed by the Thirteenth Amendment was proving to be a chimera. Even moderates insisted on basic civil rights for freedmen, though suffrage was still viewed as a privilege by many. The author points out that several commentators and observers at the time held that freedom for all residents of the South was conditional. The thinking of the Southern oligarchy so permeated Southern society that any dissent in speech or actions was dealt with suddenly and harshly. That is the atmosphere into which civil rights was to be introduced.

The ascendance of the old South is the situation that Congress and the huge Republican majority faced when it convened on Dec 4, 1865. It also faced an enlarged presidency; Lincoln had gathered by necessity more power than any previous president. Congress was not anxious for a confrontation with the President, who had declared, Jackson-like, that he was the sole legitimate authority over the Confederate states. As the author indicates, the Republicans constantly made overtures to Johnson over the next year for him to acknowledge the plight of freedmen, but to no avail. After rejecting the newly elected Southern congressmen, Rep Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican from PA, introduced a concurrent resolution that resulted in the establishment of The Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Dec 13, 1865, consisting of 15 members drawn from both Houses, with the task to "inquire into the condition of ... the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they, or any of them, are entitled to be represented in either house of Congress." The Joint Committee's report, issued by chairman Sen. William Pitt Fessenden, a moderate from Maine, in June, 1866, and drawn from testimony solicited from over one hundred Southerners, confirmed what was largely known from numerous journalistic tours of the South, that is, that the South did not have the governmental structures or even a desire on the personal level to protect the civil rights of all persons such that those states should regain their former standing in the national government. In addition to the report, the Committee was also tasked to submit needed legislation to back up their findings. Despite the inclination of several Radical members to consider the Southern states essentially dissolved, thereby becoming territories, and subject to broad Congressional control including wholesale land redistribution, the more moderate but still sweeping Fourteenth Amendment was the result and passed both Houses by June 13, 1866.

The Civil Rights Act of April, 1866, establishing citizenship and equal civil rights, was constructed under the auspices of the Thirteenth Amendment and predated the Fourteenth Amendment. It was passed over Johnson's veto, which was the first Congressional override of a veto in US history. But in the author's estimation, it was the Fourteenth Amendment that fully represented a new, expanded Constitutional vision. It completed what had been left at loose ends by the Founders in terms of rights and their scope and applicability; no longer could states deny the protections of the Bill of Rights to anyone. In addition, states could not selectively define eligibility for citizenship. Interestingly enough, many of the Republican Radicals were not appreciative of the Amendment's revolutionary nature, being fixated on the lack of a specific suffrage section. Section 1: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," has been one of the more debated and widely used parts of our Constitution ever since its passage. For example, it is the basis of so-called corporate personhood.

The book is largely concerned with the various interactions, with some Constitutional niceties being glanced at, surrounding the Joint Committee's work and Congressional efforts to create and pass the Civil Rights Act and to renew the Freedman's Bureau legislation, the latter of which was vetoed by Johnson and not overridden. The Freedmen's Bureau had a tremendous impact in first year after the War, easing the freedmen's transition to independence by not only providing immediate relief but also by building schools and distributing federally held lands - all of which was contrary to Jacksonian individualism. In addition to background information on the Southern situation, the author does provide succinct mini-profiles of several relevant individuals both within and without Congress. It goes without saying that Stevens is profiled, but he also recognizes Fessenden, Sen. Charles Sumner of Mass, Rep. John Bingham of OH, the principal author of Section 1 herein quoted, Sen. Lyman Trumbull of IL, German-American soldier and diplomat Carl Schurz, and quixotic, utopian reformer Robert Dale Owens, who was instrumental in creating the Freedman's Bureau. He also, less successfully, veers off into the women's suffrage movement and its relegation to secondary status compared to freedmen suffrage and other unnecessary miscellany. The author captures well the emotions of the times: the fears and determination of the Republicans, and the fierce resistance of those who wanted a return to ante-bellum society.

The book is somewhat narrow in its focus. It largely ends with Johnson's disastrous tour of the North in the late summer of 1866 to create a National Union movement opposed to the Fourteenth Amendment and the basis of a new political party with him being the standard bearer in 1868. His responses to various hecklers only added to the evidence of a very disturbed personality. Of course, Johnson little knew that he had the travails of impeachment ahead. While the legislation of 1866 provided a legal basis, so-called Radical Reconstruction involving military control was actually implemented under the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which regrettably are not a part of the book. The situation for freedmen, which never came close to the legislative promise of 1866, was beginning to rapidly deteriorate by the mid-1870s. Any belief that the entrenched Southern system could straightforwardly be changed had proven to be complete fantasy. The author notes that it had became evident beyond doubt by the turn of the century that freedmen's rights, both civil and political, were under total assault under a regime of "Jim Crow," with both the Supreme Court and Congress abdicating their Constitutional duties of properly judging and enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment. At the same time, the Civil War and Reconstruction were being widely reinterpreted as examples of Northern meddling in Southern agrarian and internal interests. Southerners had supposedly fought the good fight achieving a kind of nobility. Even though "Jim Crow" had formally been disallowed, the author claims that the Fourteenth Amendment remains an incompletely understood and implemented statute. In addition, the men of the 39th Congress have not gotten their proper due.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Great Book
By S. Riccardi
This book tells the story of the constitutional transformation wrought by the Civil War, culminating in the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. The focus of the book is on the time after Lincoln's assasination until Congress' passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to be ratified by the States. Although this time period, and the story told in the book, has been the focus of many scholarly articles and books, this appears to be the first treatment of the topic for a popular audience.

Garrett Epps is a skilled writer and Democracy Reborn is very readable. He ably captures the excitement of the time. The book is also a fairly complete recounting of the roles of most of the major players in the drama. All in all it is a very enjoyable and educational.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
My favorite Amendement
By M. A Newman
Few documents are cited as frequently as the US Constitution by people who have never bothered to read it. Buried in the middle of the short document is the source of modern liberty, the 14th Amendment, this book shows how freedom and liberty was imposed from high minded elites against the will of a violently racist society.

Most people imagine that democracy in America was something that came with the Revolutionary War. In reality, the founding fathers were deeply suspicious of the common people to make decisions regarding their political future. It would be a stretch to imagine that they foresaw the attack ad ridden political culture of today, but there is some merit in this thought. In the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800, a mere 2% of the voters of the state of New York were permitted to vote. In 1828, only 7% of the population took part in the election of Andrew Jackson. Popular voting for president occurred in South Carolina only after the Civil War. Changes came about only as migration to west made some of the property requirements irrelevant, but up until Reconstruction, White Male America might enjoy political rights (the franchise) and civil rights (the right to marry, make contracts) although not everyone had those rights (and would not until the repeal of the poll tax in the 1960s! African Americans were prevented from registering to vote until the mid-1960s, and there are still election year purges of the voting rolls in doubtful states in election years) .

The status of slaves evolved rapidly from 1858-1865, when Dred Scott asserted that slaves were not citizens, but chattel and enjoyed no more rights than cattle to the idea that newly freed Africans Americans would have both political and civil rights. Like numerous controversies that would follow and would grow out of the 14 Amendment, the idea of black enfranchisement was no more popular with the majority of the population than gay marriage is today in some circles. The notion that former slaves might exercise the franchise was an abomination in many circles North and South. As usual, it took the work of a band of elites to insert into the constitution the notion that all people were equal in their relationship to the state, not a platitude, but a real controversial issue of the day.

It took men like Thaddeus Stevens, whose views of racial equality have largely become accepted at least in most quarters was regarded as a radical by the standards of his day. To understand just how out of step Stevens was with the attitudes of his day and up until the end of WWII, one need only look at his subsequent portrayals. Stevens inherently reasonable and farsighted position led to him being caricatured by subsequent historians and even D.W. in his racist epic, Birth of a Nation.

The villain of the book is the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, the alcoholic racist president, determined in the name of equality to keep former slaves in a new form of bondage. The author thinks it was a pity he was not impeached and I am inclined to agree with them. It would have been different for the people who would spin the history of Reconstruction in later generations to make Johnson into a hero had he been removed from office. The political ineptitude of Johnson should be celebrated, even if his ideas of making the United States a country fit only for white people are repugnant to all right thinking people. Had he not proven to be such a failure as a political leader the 14th Amendment would never have been passed. He solidified the ranks of the Republican Party better than any leader could have done and pushed them to greater progressive thought than would have been possible had he compromised. A lesson is here for politicians of both parties.

Getting the 14th Amendment passed involved a variety of political shenanigans by the radicals. Elections were declared invalid, southern representatives, who had opposed the United States only a year before, were not seated in congress and rebellious states were not allowed to be readmitted. Garratt Epps demonstrates the various parries and thrusts by Stevens and his allies, all to put forth the idea that all men were created equal and make it more than a slogan, but a genuine rebirth of freedom.

The authors of the 14th Amendment were flawed in the sense that they did not go far enough. Women were excluded and this served to drive a wedge between the two camps of the former abolitionist movement. Those who sought an equal roll just for the former slaves became divorced from their female emancipation allies.

Once the 14th Amendment was passed and even before people were horrified at the idea that people would be regarded as equal under the law and steps were taken to undermine its impact. As the memories of the Civil War retreated, people wanted to forget, they wanted sectional unity more than they wanted freedom. It really took the end of another war, WWII and a gradual discrediting of racist views for the Amendment to assume a larger role. Yep, this is what all those "liberal judges" cite when new freedoms are found in court cases and this is the amendment that gives all those people who are outraged by these decisions promoting equality under the law fits. May it long continue to do so.

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Emily's Pop-Pop is shocked when he hears that Emily and Vincetta Louise don't know what a veteran is. With Veterans Day coming up, he volunteers to talk to their class about the holiday and the people it honors. But Emily is worried. Pop-Pop sometimes falls asleep at the strangest times. What if he falls asleep in front of the whole class? Everyone would laugh!

Vinni and Emily come up with a plan. With so much to learn, they have to make sure that no one sleeps through this Veterans Day!

• Sales Rank: #1292628 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Published on: 2008-08-05
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .31" w x 5.50" l, .43 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

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About the Author

PETER CATALANOTTO is the author/illustrator of many books for children. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.

PAMELA SCHEMBRI is a librarian in upstate New York. The Veterans Day Visitor is her first series for young readers.

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Chapter One Emily never jumped in leaves. They were dirty. They might be wet. Bugs crawled in them. At Emily’s grandparents’ house, there were piles and piles of leaves. Emily and her best friend, Vinni, were visiting after school on a sunny November day. “Watch me!” Vinni shouted. She ran and jumped into a mountain of leaves. Emily wrinkled her nose. “Aren’t they itchy?” “No!” said Vinni. “It’s fun!” “Ick,” said Emily. Vinni shook her head. “You are so weird.” She threw a bunch of leaves at Emily. Emily laughed. “You know, girls, different people like different things.” Emily and Vinni stopped. Emily’s Pop-Pop was standing behind them. He leaned against his rake. “For example, you, Vincetta—” “Vinni,” interrupted Vinni. Pop-Pop started again. “For example, you, Vinni”—he pointed right at her— “you like wearing fancy hair clips, fancy shoes, and fancy pants.” “So does Emily,” Vinni said. “Exactly,” said Pop-Pop. “Without the hair clips.” “So how is that different?” Emily asked. Pop-Pop stroked his chin. “No hair clips.” Vinni’s mouth was open. She raised one eyebrow and looked at Emily. Emily shrugged. The girls waited. “You know,” said Pop-Pop, “it’s good that people are different. For example, next Monday is Veterans Day.” Pop-Pop loved to talk. “Different people will celebrate in different ways. Some people will hang a flag. Some will go to a parade. Others will remember loved ones quietly at home.” “What’s a veteran?” asked Emily. “It’s a doctor for dogs,” said Vinni. “That’s a veterinarian,” said Emily. Pop-Pop was shocked. He put down his rake. “You don’t know?” He pointed at both of them. “You don’t know about the people who helped keep our country free? Don’t you... I can’t believe... second grade?” Suddenly Pop-Pop stopped talking. His knees buckled. The girls couldn’t move. He bit his lip. He steadied himself. “I need to lie down.” Pop-Pop went to the hammock and fell fast asleep. Excerpted from The Veterans Day Visitor by Peter Catalanotto and Pamela SchembriCopyright © 2008 by Peter Catalanotto and Pamela SchembriPublished in 2008 by Henry Holt and Company, LLCAll rights reserved. This work is protected under copyright laws and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Permission to reproduce the material in any manner or medium must be secured from the Publisher.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Narc-O-Sleepy
By Girl And Dogs Review
Okay, I admit that I did not buy this book because it was about veterans. This book was at my local Dollar Tree and I bought it, because when I flipped through it, there was a character with Narcolepsy! My mom has Narcolepsy (or Narc-o-sleepy as Vinni calls it) and it's a very difficult thing to understand so I think that it's a wonderful thing that this book explains it in a way a child can understand. She also used to tell silly stories, though I never had her come to my class so I can't say if she would have told them there.

The part about veterans and what they do is not very specific, but I don't think the book is a teach-all about veterans. It's just an enjoyable kid's story with a veteran who visits his granddaughter's class.

Pop-Pop (the veteran) does tell a bit about veterans such as "I am a veteran. I was a soldier. Soldiers become veterans." You have to keep in mind that this was written so that a 7 or 8-year-old could read it by themselves. But I don't see any reason why someone couldn't use the simple text as a springboard for discussion.

Teddy O'Malley, author of Tell Me How You Say Good Night

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
AMAZING ...
By TRUE WORD
I did not expect a book rated for a second grader to bring tears to my eyes, but it did! What a wonderful heartfelt story that is sure to be a delightful read for a child of an age. A great tribute to our Veterans!

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
This is not primarily about veterans or Veteran's Day!!
By Amazon Customer
After reading this book to them, I asked a group of 5 year olds what a veteran was. A very confused child said, "Someone who falls asleep easily?" I was rather confused myself. This book was more about narcolepsy than about veterans! It talks very little about veterans and how we pay them honor. The only real example of giving them honor was when the granddaughter gets up and says that her grandfather pays them respect by having a moment of silence, so all the kids in the class grandpa came to visit are quiet for a minute. The granddaughter only did that to cover up the fact that grandpa had suddenly fallen asleep! A very bizarre book. I had read the book because the teacher asked me to, having just gotten it in the mail, and she had been hoping it would talk about veterans and Veteran's Day. I was shocked by another reviewer who said it made him or her cry. I guess I would cry because it was so bad. Or laugh because it was kind of funny that it taught very little about veterans.

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Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his quest to become a hero. Taran is joined by an engaging cast of characters that includes Eilonwy, the strong-willed and sharp-tongued princess; Fflewddur Fflam, the hyperbole-prone bard; the ever-faithful Gurgi; and the curmudgeonly Doli―all of whom have become involved in an epic struggle between good and evil that shapes the fate of the legendary land of Prydain. Released over a period of five years, Lloyd Alexander's beautifully written tales not only captured children's imaginations but also garnered the highest critical praise.

The Black Cauldron was a Newbery Honor Book, and the final volume in the chronicles, The High King, crowned the series by winning the Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

Henry Holt is proud to present this classic series in a new, redesigned paperback format. The jackets feature stunning art by acclaimed fantasy artist David Wyatt, giving the books a fresh look for today's generation of young fantasy lovers. The companion book of short stories, The Foundling is also available in paperback at this time.

In their more than thirty years in print, the Chronicles of Prydain have become the standard of excellence in fantasy literature for children. This title has Common Core connections.

• Sales Rank: #16178 in Books
• Brand: Square Fish
• Published on: 2006-05-16
• Released on: 2006-05-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.73" h x .63" w x 5.20" l, .42 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

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The tale of Taran, assistant pig keeper, has been entertaining young readers for generations. Set in the mythical land of Prydain (which bears a more than passing resemblance to Wales), Lloyd Alexander's book draws together the elements of the hero's journey from unformed boy to courageous young man. Taran grumbles with frustration at home in the hamlet Caer Dallben; he yearns to go into battle like his hero, Prince Gwydion. Before the story is over, he has met his hero and fought the evil leader who threatens the peace of Prydain: the Horned King.

What brings the tale of Taran to life is Alexander's skillful use of humor, and the way he personalizes the mythology he has so clearly studied. Taran isn't a stick figure; in fact, the author makes a point of mocking him just at the moments when he's acting the most highhanded and heroic. When he and the young girl Eilonwy flee the castle of the wicked queen Achren, Taran emotes, "'Spiral Castle has brought me only grief; I have no wish to see it again.' 'What has it brought the rest of us?' Eilonway asked. 'You make it sound as though we were just sitting around having a splendid time while you moan and take on.'" By the end, Alexander has spun a rousing hero's tale and created a compelling coming-of-age story. Readers will sigh with relief when they realize The Book of Three is only the first of the chronicles of Prydain. --Claire Dederer

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Gr 4–7—While the general public may be more familiar with the second book in the series, The Black Cauldron, due to the 1985 Disney film adaptation, true fantasy lovers know The Book of Three as one of the most iconic and influential works of middle grade fiction from the 20th century. Based on Welsh mythology, the tale stars Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper on a hero's quest, joined by a comic cast of supporting characters. Filled with wit, wordplay, and an epic battle of good vs. evil, Alexander's novel helped pave the way for countless fantasy adventures. Included in this 50th anniversary edition is an introduction by Shannon Hale, an author's note, a rather helpful pronunciation guide, an interview with Lloyd Alexander, a story from The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain, and the first chapter of The Black Cauldron. The physical presentation will appeal to collectors; this edition features a deep red cloth binding accented with ornate gold and black illustrations on the cover, and deckled edges, befitting a classic. An absolute must-have for fantasy fans.

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“A very funny adventure tale set in an imaginary kingdom... The writing is sophisticated.” ―Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

“The author draw his figures with the ... touches of irritability, doltishness and contrariness that leavens with high good humor the high fantasy.” ―Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

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212 of 219 people found the following review helpful.
I have never forgotten the land of Prydain
By CT music fan
There are books that you don't want to see come to an end.
There are books that rattle in your brain, heart and soul, and stay with you, never to be forgotten.
Lloyd Alexander's magnificent series falls into these categories. I first read them at the age of 13 and have just read them again at 35. This series was the first that I did not want to see end. It's what got me started on reading Tolkien, Lewis, Donaldson, Piers Anthony, Dune, and others. I'm glad to see so many people love these books as well.
And why not? The characters are dynamic, engaging and more real than the average fantasy ones. The stories move along nicely with few if any slow moments. The classic elements of good and evil are all here with some twists.
There were some aspects that I was too young to appreciate the first time. One was the humor, most noticeable in The Book of Three, as we see some of the characters getting to first know each other. The other aspect was the theme/message that the way of the warrior is not the only path to nobility, honor, and courage (or to adulthood). There is as much honor in taking care of a garden as there is in being a warrior, to very loosely paraphrase one of the characters. In this day and age, when so much of the culture says be the biggest, baddest, toughest, strongest, richest etc person who destroys or gobbles up things, the message of taking care of one's garden, creating something of beauty be it a woven cloak or a clay pot, or honoring a friend's request is refreshing and not heard enough.
To the other reviewers who feel Alexander borrowed characters and motifs heavily from Tolkien, these have been part of literature and mythology for a long time. Long BEFORE Tolkien. If Dallben is Gandalf, well, Gandalf is Merlin. And Merlin was borrowed from other myths or folktales. Alexander borrowed some from The Mabinogen, the Welsh treasury of mythology. Tolkien borrowed from Beowulf and other English sources. These stories have been recreated or recast for ages. Sure, there are similarities but then this is a genre where dwarves, wizards, and enchanted objects are the norm. But assistant Pig-Keepers, frustrated ex-giants who whine about their lack of stature, a traveling bard with a second job as a King, or a trio of witches with an unusual, unpredicable sense of logic who switch identities daily(they deserve a book of their own!)? Hardly. And where have you ever seen a character quite like Fflewdur Flam? (Well, maybe in Dickens or Mark Helprin's A Winter's Tale)
For the kids (or adults) who love Harry Potter: you've got till July before the 4th book is out. There are no Quidditch matches but Taran may remind you of Harry and Dallben may remind you of Dumbledore. Check these five books out. (But avoid the inaccurate animated version of The Black Cauldron)
I've read the Lord of the Rings twice and for a long time considered it the best book I'd ever read. But it doesn't hold quite the special spot in my heart that the Prydain books do. And at least Lloyd Alexander spared us his version of those boringly long elf or dwarf songs and poems.

125 of 130 people found the following review helpful.
A great start to one of the great fantasy series
By Neil Roseman
I read this book for the first time about 30 years ago, when I was 10 years old. Recently I re-read the entire series, and was enchanted again.
The tale of Taran and friends has everything a great children's book should: adventure, danger, good, evil, love and death. And, there is lots of humor, too, which you don't always find in similar clasics. The writing is great throughout -- this is not Goosebumps -- and the child who has the privilege of reading the Chronicles will surely be changed. The story, based on Welsh legends, subtly explores the great mysteries of life, and teaches lessons about bravery, honesty, compassion and devotion, without ever being preachy or obvious.
These books belong on the same shelf as the L'Engle Time trilogy, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising Sequence, the Narnia Books and a small number of others.
Buy this for a favorite kid (maybe one that has gotten hooked on reading through "Harry Potter"), but get it for yourself, too.

28 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant fantasy
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I have often jokingly told people to read this before reading JRR Tolkein because it's "Hobbit"-lite. But my jest is with all affection. "The Book of Three" is the first of five books (not including the 6th of short stories) involving the fantasy world of Prydain. Lloyd Alexander borrows heavily from Gaelic and Welsh mythology to create the tale of Taran, Assistant Pig-keeper for the enchanter Dallben. In this book we are introduced to Taran, a boy on the cusp of manhood eager to take part in the adventures of the world. Dark forces under the direction of Awran, the Death-Lord threaten the lives of all in Prydain, and none is more feared that the gruesom "Horned King". After leaping "headfirst into a thorn bush" young Taran finds himself face to face with this dreaded champion of darkness who has come from Annuvuin in search of Hen-wen, the oracular pig under Taran's charge. I won't spoil any more of the story except to say that this book introduces many of the characters that appear later on in the rest of the series: the stubborn and lovely Princess Eilonwy, the king-who-wants-to-be-a-bard Fflewder Flam, the cantankerous Doli of the fairfolk, Coll- the warrior turned farmer, and more. Lloyd Alexander's fantasy tale, in my opinion, rivals that of Tolkein as a richly crafted work with wonderful images and a deep understanding and appreciation for the thoughts and feelings of a young man like Taran. The text is easy to read, and the story flows smoothly along. Each book can stand alone, but together create a magnificant epic tapestry. The names of the characters are a little hard to get used to, but not impossible. This is the kind of book you can read out loud at bed-time to young childern. The plot is engaging enough for the little ones and deep enough for adults to appreciate. I recommend this book to just about anyone, and especially for children who are old enough to be reading completely on their own and have reached that point where they are "into" adventures. The best thing about this book (and the series) is that what little violence there is is not glorified, there is no gratuitous sex, and there are morals espoused without sounding preachy. And its the kind of story that girls and boys can enjoy and its perfect for pre-teens and early teens. As the books progress, young teens can "grow" along with Taran, and understand some of his angst. All around, a most excellent novel, and only the begining of a fantastic story...

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