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ONE LIFE TO GIVE is now available for Pre-Order

My new book is now available for pre-order. Pre-order an autographed copy directly from me, order from the publisher Fortress Press, or order from your favorite bookseller:



cover of John Fanestil's new book
new from Fortress Press

Here is what Ann Taves, the Distinguished Professor (Emerita) of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara has to say about it:


“ONE LIFE TO GIVE paints a vivid and timely picture of the role that the idea of martyrdom played in our nation’s Revolutionary origins. Repurposed as a wartime ideal, patriots took up arms to resist a ‘tyrant’ whom they were convinced represented ‘a mortal threat to their liberty.’ In doing so, they instilled a still potent—and potentially destabilizing—image at the root of American identity that echoes down through our nation’s history, including events of recent years.”


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