TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Marilynne TI - When I was a child I read books SN - 0374298785 (alk. paper) PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Calvinism KW - United States KW - Philosophy, American KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Theology KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206); Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology N2 - In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature ER -