'Religious radicals are interesting people, and Stephen Neese's fine account of the life of Algernon Sidney Crapsey, tried for heresy by the Episcopal Church, portrays a person moving to ever more radical stances. Based on exhaustive mining of family and archival material, as well as Crapsey's writings, Neese brings to life a surprisingly neglected figure and fills a gap in the story of American religious liberalism at the turn of the twentieth century.'Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., Professor of Religion, George Washington UniversityStephen Neese's book does an exemplary job of describing the stormy life of Algernon Crapsey, an unjustly forgotten freethinker. This story is especially relevant today, when the Episcopal Church is again undergoing doctrinal disputes over matters elating to human sexuality, the reliability of scripture, and the role of the hierarchy. It would seem that Crapsey is unlikely to remain the last heretic after all.- Tim Madigan, Department of Philosophy, St.

John Fisher College.