With Bleeding Footsteps

Born in 1821, Mary Baker Eddy rose from unremarkable, indeed unfortunate, beginnings - a sickly New Hampshire farm girl all too accustomed to the illness and death of loved ones - to become, early in the twentieth century, a household name across America, and famous around the world. In this groundbreaking biography, Robert Thomas brilliantly employs his training in both history and psychoanalysis and, for a non-Christian Scientist, his unprecedented access to Church archives to illuminate the psychological and social circumstances that led to Eddy's founding of a major religious movement.…