Posted on 01/12/07
I dream of genealogy
SOME FAMILYThe Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of ItselfBy Donald Harman AkensonMcGill-Queen's University Press,349 pages, $34.95Gary Wills, a man who has written an unseemly number of books and whose thoughts regularly grace the pages of The New York Review of Books, has a beef with intellectuals: They don't understand how important religion is to the average American. This is clearly an important point for Mr. Wills, for it is almost impossible to pick up one of his (many) books without being told that intellectuals are so many ostriches, hiding their heads in the sand lest they be confronted with the bugbear that is religiosity.
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