Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family Spiritual Growth offering Nouwen's seasoned yet fresh

offering Nouwen's seasoned yet fresh ideas on kindness

would at times resemble a battlefield

a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress

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with little relevance to everyday life in the twenty-first century

Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family Spiritual Growth offering Nouwen's seasoned yet freshNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker A New York Times Editors' Choice "[Webster's] excellent and thought provoking book is on every level about unknowing rather than knowing about pondering the mysteries of Banneker, who is often described as one of the first African American scientists, and the legacy of 11 generations of a multiracial American family that only now is coming into view." Jess Row, The New York Times A family reunion gives