Peter Manseau, Author . Free Press $25 (383p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4907-2
In an engrossing memoir, a young and talented writer limns the lives of his parents, a former nun and a priest who chose to marry but never renounced his ministerial orders. The co-author of Killing the Buddha
and founding editor of the online...
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Peter Manseau, Author . Holt $26 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8652-2
You have to love a book with sentences like this: “Things got rough for the foreskins of Jesus as the Middle Ages matured.” Author Manseau (Vows
) lavishly scatters gems like this as he travels the world in search of the bones, teeth,...
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Peter Manseau, Author Free Press $25 (370p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3870-7
Known for Vows, his memoir of growing up the son of a former priest and nun, Manseau uses an alter ego to tell the story of fictional Yiddish poet Itsik Malpesh, born in the Moldovan city of Kishinev in 1903. Itsik's story is told through his...
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Peter Manseau. Little, Brown, $28 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-10003-8
The last few decades have produced several magisterial tomes on American religious history, from such authors as Sydney Ahlstrom and Edwin Gaustad. None, however, matches the subversive and much-needed revisionism of Manseau's tour de force. Arguing
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Peter Manseau. Smithsonian, $29.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-58834-592-9
The subtitle for this engrossing work is also the name of the first religion-oriented exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. This landmark study of the role of religion in the early history of the U.S.—from the
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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost
Peter Manseau. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-74597-1
The “spirit photographs” of William H. Mumler (1832–1884) serve as a touchstone for reflections on photography and its impact on public perceptions of reality in this meticulously researched study of America’s dalliance with spiritualism in the 19th
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Peter Manseau, Author, Patrick Girard Lawlor, Read by , read by Patrick Lawlor. Tantor $37.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4001-0197-9
The title says it all: a twin set of Catholic dreams and ideals gone awry—or holding fast, depending on what angle you're looking from. Manseau's memoir returns to the 1950s, the early years of his parents' devotion to the Church,...
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Peter Manseau, Author, Jeff Sharlet, Author . Free Press $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3276-0
The set-up goes like this: take two religiously flippant intellectuals (in this case, Manseau and Sharlet, the founding editors of the spiritually hip online magazine Killing the Buddha
) and send them on a yearlong road trip to discover the...
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