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Can she unlock the secrets of The House of Fever?
1935, Hedoné House, a luxurious sanatorium for the creative elite
dedicated to the groundbreaking treatment of tuberculosis. As the
doctor’s new wife, Agnes Templeton has pledged her life to a house of
fever.
But Hedoné is no ordinary hospital. High society rubs shoulders with
artists, poets and musicians. No expense is spared on the comfort of
the guests, and champagne flows freely. It’s a world away from
everything Agnes knows.
Her husband’s methods are unusual. There are whisperings about past
patients and even a cure. Hedoné’s secrets draw Agnes in, revealing
truths she could never anticipate, and soon she is caught between a
past she is desperate to escape and a future she may forever regret.
A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an
American civil religion. In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the
first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a
"great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for
the White House, the US Capitol, and the National Mall, this grand
temple to the republic never materialized. But in 1890, the
Episcopal Church began planning what is known today as Washington
National Cathedral. In American Kairos, Richard Benjamin Crosby
chronicles the history of not only the building but also the idea
that animates it, arguing that the cathedral is a touchstone site
for the American civil religion-the idea that the United States
functions much like a religion, with its own rituals, sacred texts,
holy days, and so on. He shows that the National Cathedral can
never be the church L'Enfant envisioned, but it can be a starting
point for studying the conflicts of belonging, ideology, and
America's place in the world that define the American civil
religion. By examining correspondence between L'Enfant, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and others, and by diving into
Washington National Cathedral's archives, Crosby uncovers a crucial
gap in the formation of the nation's soul. While L'Enfant's
original vision was never realized, Washington National Cathedral
reminds us that perhaps it can be. The cathedral is one of the
great rhetorical and architectural triumphs in the history of
American religion. Without government mandate or public vote, it
has claimed its role as America's de facto house of worship, a
civil religious temple wherein Americans conduct some of their
highest, holiest rituals, including state funerals and National Day
of Prayer services.
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