Two worthy but little-known books, after months of thumbing along untrodden ways, were last fortnight picked up by a comfortable sedanthe Pulitzer award for biography and historyand given a lift toward public attention.
Ola Elizabeth Winslow's Jonathan Edwards (Macmillan; $3.50) is what right-minded citizens expect of Pulitzer committees: a solid, sound and informative book, neither exciting nor stodgy. When Preacher Edwards preached hellfire he meant real fire. He lifted the scalps of his Northampton congregation by asking them to imagine first their little fingers dipped in the burning lake, then their hands, arms,...
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