Frank Yerby

"This novel touches upon only two issues which, in a certain sense, might be called controversial: Whether any man truly has the right to believe fanciful and childish nonsense; and whether any organization has the right to impose, by almost imperial fiat, belief in things that simply are not so."
-	Frank Yerby, 1968.

The quote above from Frank Yerby, one of the most widely read and successful authors of the mid-to-late 20th century, was in the forward to one of his historical novels. Although the novel was about a specific time in history, the reader can easily apply it a wide variety of philosophies, circumstances, and events. Such as ...

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