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| | Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Mordecai by Emily Bingham, reviewed by The New Republic Online (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Her book exhaustively mines both the Mordecais' correspondence and the supplementary collections of their diaries and personal papers to furnish a finely grained portrait of a Southern Jewish clan whose members, more often than not, were at odds with one another, especially when it came to matters of belief. |
 | | Still other Mordecais lots of them, in fact actually converted to Christianity, their hearts swayed by the "final conviction of the truth as it is in Jesus," or by their spouses. |
 | | To lose sight of this dimension of the Mordecai family saga is to render a "gross disservice" to the Mordecais, to latter-day readers of their letters, and, above all, to history. |
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