Leslie Daniels: 4 books

“I knew I could stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world.” So begins Leslie Daniels’s...

Consequences, then, is a “walk with me” through the process survivors must follow to tell the Anglican church their stories. It was not a pleasant journey but was a necessary one, and there is no such thing as “closure” at the end. However, this may be as close as it comes for many survivors....

This story is true. It is a disturbing expose of child sexual abuse at the hands of an authority figure, a Canon, in the Anglican Church of Canada in the early 1960’s. What it is not, unfortunately, is unique. Historically under reported, statistics still suggest that one...

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...