Pitching sales

Peter J. Leithart February 16, 2010

Amazon says they’ve got my Jane Austen biography in stock. Click the icon to the right and you’ll get there.

New St Andrews College philosopher Mitch Stokes has a biography of Isaac Newton (Christian Encounters Series) in the same series from Nelson, and it’s in stock at Amazon too. Check it out.

Peter J. Leithart

Peter J. Leithart is president of the Theopolis Institute, Birmingham, Alabama. He posts regularly at his Substack, Notes from Beth-Elim.

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