Richard Easton is an English professor at Washington and Jefferson University. He has lived in Pennsylvania all his life; A REAL AMERICAN is based on stories from his ancestors, who experienced first-hand the struggle between southern European immigrants and older British and Germanic families. This is his first book.
As a young Jewish man in 17th century Amsterdam, Baruch de Spinoza excelled as a theological student; but as he encountered free-thinking Protestants, atheists, and radicals in this relatively tolerant city, he began to question his religion and the natur...[SEE MORE]