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Book Reviews: April 2012

Bob Dockhorn on Carol Faulkner’s Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Tom Hamm on Elizabeth Taylor Stirredge’s Strength in Weakness Manifest, and more…

Staff

August 2024 Books

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

By Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 496 pages. $32/hardcover; $22/paperback; $15.99/eBook. The AR-15, a rifle…

Reviewed by Isaac Barnes May

Features

Fox Hunt

A trek to the semi-forgotten gravesite of George Fox.

Cameron McWhirter

June/July 2025 Books

One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

By Daniel Silliman. Eerdmans, 2024. 336 pages. $36.99/hardcover or eBook. In One Lost Soul, Daniel Silliman focuses his attention on…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

November 2023 Books

Prisoners of Congress: Philadelphia’s Quakers in Exile, 1777–1778

By Norman E. Donoghue II. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. 288 pages. $44.95/hardcover; $35.99/eBook. Societal pressures caused by war…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

April 2015 Books

Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement / Quakers and Abolition

Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement: By Brian Temple. McFarland & Company Inc., 2014. 240 pages. $39.95/paperback; $24.99/eBook.   Quakers…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

November 2019 Books

Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By Steven Waldman. HarperOne, 2019. 416 pages. $28.99/hardcover; $12.99/eBook.

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

March 2019 Books

William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R. Murphy. Oxford University Press, 2018. 488 pages. $34.95/hardcover; $23.99/eBook. The name William Penn evokes an image of…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

October 2018 Books

Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds

By Nancy A. Hewitt. The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 440 pages. $39.95/hardcover; $29.99/eBook. Throughout American history, the Quaker…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

April 2018 Books

Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

By Gary B. Nash. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 352 pages. $34.95/hardcover or eBook. Thorough books have been produced in…

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter