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A Wall Streets Journal Top-Ten Nonfiction Reserve of 2012 and a New York Times Editors' Choice. A ethnic and intellectual history of sincerity, from its introduction during the Protestant Reformation to its present incarnations and adversaries. Folks have long been duped by "straight-talking" politicians, confessional talk-show hosts, and falsely earnest advertisers. As sincerity has become think, the upright and honest took refuge in irony. Yet our struggle for authenticity in back-to-the-woods moves, folksy songwriting, and a craving for plainspoken presidential candidates betrays our longing for the holy grail of sincerity. Bringing profound historical perspective and an excellent contemporary spin to Lionel Trilling's 1972 Sincerity and Authenticity, R. Jay Magill Jr. argues that people can't shake sincerity's profound theological past, emotional resonance, and the sense of conscience it has carved in the Traditional western spirit. From Protestant theology to paintings by crazy people, from French satire to the anti-hipster movement, Magill navigates history, religion, skill, and politics to create a portrait of a great that, despite its mistreatment, remains a weird magnetic north inside our secular moral compass.
