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Title: interesting, but anecdotal, without a bibliography, and with some startling mistakes
Review: This book is a mishmash, and is poorly named, particularly the subtitle (maybe the publisher chose it?). It's interesting and heartfelt, and obviously the author cares a great deal for the subject. But it wanders back and forth.She makes some errors that would be astonishingly easy to have corrected.As someone else pointed out, the Immaculate Conception is Mary being born without the taint of original sin, not Jesus's birth. That's the Virgin Birth.The word "discalced" does not mean anything "literally" about poverty. It means "shoeless."The correct name of the high school in Seattle is not "Blanchette" but "Blanchet."She has no bibliography and cites no sources for her information.Interesting and heart-felt, but not a work of scholarship, which is a pity.
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