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NARDI REEDER CAMPION was the author of eight other books, including a memoir, Everyday Matters: A Love Story (forward by Hillary Rodham Clinton), and Bringing Up the Brass by Sergeant Marty Maher with Colonel Red Reeder (the basis for the film The Long Gray Line). She has written for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, American Heritage, Family Circle, Gourmet, Boston Globe Magazine, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Yankee. JUNE SPRIGG, Curator of Collections at Hancock Shaker Village, is the author of several books and many articles on the Shakers.
Written -with a feminist perspective emphasizing the radical nature
of the Shakers and their leader, who proclaimed women equal to men
and believed that God had a dual male/female nature.---School
Library Journal
An impeccably documented biography of the extraordinary religious
leader who was called the 'female Christ'. Commonweal"
Campion has illumined Ann Lee as a formative figure in the women's
movement as well [as] evoked a strong, estimable character whose
personality overcame the eccentricities of her religion in the eyes
of many who encountered her. New York Times"
Written with a feminist perspective emphasizing the radical nature
of the Shakers and their leader, who proclaimed women equal to men
and believed that God had a dual male/female nature. School Library
Journal"
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