The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960s Southern SchoolThis book is about the ironies of history, the ambiguities of even the best-intentioned of human actions, the complicity of all human beings in the histories of their respective societies, and the crucial roles of repentance and forgiveness in the health of any society. |
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