The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions, edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn (Eerdmans, 636 pp., $30)
IT is our firm belief,” write Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn, “that a successful marriage is in a real sense the finishing school of civic education.” The Book of Marriage was born out of research conducted by the Institute for American Values, which found that high-school and college textbooks typically present marriage as little more than “a private contract between two individuals” to be viewed through the prism of “health” and “selfesteem.” Seeking to restore a fuller understanding of this beleaguered institution, Mack and Blankenhorn have brought together readings on marriage from sources ranging from classical philosophy to the latest social-science research.
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