February 2023 Books

February 2023 Books

The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By Deborah Cadbury. PublicAffairs, 2022. 464 pages. $30/hardcover; $17.99/eBook. The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the…

Reviewed by Judith Favor

February 2023 Books

A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America

By Janet Moore Lindman. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 284 pages. $119.95/hardcover; $95.99/eBook. A Vivifying Spirit begins with reflections…

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

February 2023 Books

Reflections from a Solitary Meeting for Worship

By John Andrew Gallery. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 469), 2021. 30 pages. $7.50/paperback or eBook. During the last few years,…

Reviewed by Claire J. Salkowski

February 2023 Books

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records (Second Edition)

By Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen Berry, edited by Jana Sloan Broglin. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. 152 pages. $28.50/paperback.…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

February 2023 Books

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

By Ben Rawlence. St. Martin’s Press, 2022. 320 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $20/paperback (available in the US in December 2023); $14.99/eBook. If…

Reviewed by Ruah Swennerfelt

February 2023 Books

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (Revised Edition)

By Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. New World Library, 2022. 288 pages. $18.95/paperback or eBook. Most books about the mess…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2023 Books

The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back

By Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian. The New Press, 2021. 320 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $18.99/paperback (available in April); $27.99/eBook. This is…

Reviewed by J.E. McNeil

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The School That Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

February 1, 2023

A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America

February 1, 2023

Reflections from a Solitary Meeting for Worship

February 1, 2023