God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author, "the most powerful and persuasive attack on Christian Science to have been written in this century" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Millions of Americans—from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman—have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science was based on a belief that intense contemplation of the perfection of God can heal all ills—an extreme expression of the...