{"product_id":"radiant-truths-jeff-sharlet-9780300212686","title":"Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief","description":"\u003cb\u003eA startling and immensely pleasurable collection of American writings on belief, from the Civil War to Occupy Wall Street\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the sight of Whitman's words in Zuccotti Park during the brief days of the Occupy movement. The first anthology of its kind, \u003ci\u003eRadiant Truths\u003c\/i\u003e gathers an exquisite selection of writings by both well-known and forgotten American authors and thinkers, each engaged in the challenges of writing about religion, of documenting \"things unseen.\" Their contributions to the genre of literary journalism--the telling of factual stories using the techniques of fiction and poetry--make this volume one of the most exciting anthologies of creative nonfiction to have emerged in years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jeff Sharlet presents an evocative selection of writings that illuminate the evolution of the American genre of documentary prose. Each entry may be savored separately, but together the works enrich one another, engaging in an implicit and continuing conversation that reaches across time and generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIncluding works by: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Walt Whitman - Henry David Thoreau - Mark Twain - Meridel Le Sueur - Zora Neale Hurston - Mary McCarthy - James Baldwin - Norman Mailer - Ellen Willis - Anne Fadiman - John Jeremiah Sullivan - Francine Prose - Garry Wills - \u003ci\u003eand many others\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Sharlet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300212682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300212686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Jeff Sharlet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47199839846655,"sku":"9780300212686","price":62.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f44c6dd-e9d0-4fda-8505-b938637c56a8.jpg?v=1756785352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radiant-truths-jeff-sharlet-9780300212686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}