{"product_id":"2940169919080","title":"An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLost Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e comes a stirring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the age of 33, Erik Reece's father, a Baptist minister, took his own life, leaving Erik in the care of his grandmother and his grandfather — also a fundamentalist Baptist preacher and a pillar of his rural Virginia community. While Erik grew up with a conflicted relationship with Christianity, he unexpectedly found comfort in the Jefferson Bible. Inspired by the text, he undertook what would become a spiritual and literary quest to identify an \"American gospel\" coursing through the work of both great and forgotten American geniuses, from William Byrd to Walt Whitman to William James to Lynn Margulis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result of Reece's journey is a deeply intimate, stirring audiobook about personal, political, and historical demons — and the geniuses we must call upon to combat them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098130301168,"sku":"2940169919080","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169919080_p0.jpg?v=1769902939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169919080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}