Blind Faith vs Lay This Body Down: Which Should You Read?

Blind Faith Joe McGinniss · 1981 ★★★★☆ 3.7 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his…

Lay This Body Down Gregory A. Freeman · 1999 195 pages · ≈ 3 h 37 m · Moderate

“Jasper and Newton Countries in central Georgia are not all that different from the way they were in 1921, at as far as the more pleasant aspect of Southern culture are concerned.”

The John S. Williams plantation in Georgia was operated largely with the labor of slaves—and this was in 1921, 56 years after the Civil War. Williams was not alone in using “peons,” but his reaction to a federal…