Book Reviews
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Franklin's Thrift
The Lost History of an American Virtue
David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren
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CHOICE—Vol. 47, No. 4
12/1/2009
Sorcha Brophy-Warren’s essay on mutual savings banks is well researched and informative. Alex Roberts’s essay in public policy suggests sensible ways to increase thrift.
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America—New York, NY
11/30/2009
Engaging the changing legacy of thrift from the 18th century to the present, the contributors to this volume write energetically and with a grounded conviction on a subject of deep cultural significance as they challenge and confound “reductive and unappealing“ views of thrift.
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Spirituality and Practice
7/20/2009
[O]ffers a set of guiding ethical and social principles from which Americans today, no less than in the past, can draw upon in responding to the grave challenges we face today. —Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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