There Is a River: Story of Edgar Cayce

Sugrue, Thomas Joseph

Published by Henry Holt and Company, 1956

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Copyright page indicates ?10th printing March 1956.? First published in 1942. Text block in very good condition: no underlining, tears, or dog ears, but the lower right-hand corners of a number of pages have light crease (not a fold). Spine between pages 180 and 181 barely beginning to crack (book falls open to those pages). Pages somewhat age-browned. Endpapers also age-browned, and previous owner?s name written onto first free endpaper. Grey cloth cover in very good condition with a few discolorations or spots on back. A few bumped corners. Spine slightly bumped, top and bottom. Spine slightly cocked (1/8? unaligned). Dust jacket in very poor condition. 9 ½? x 6?, 453 pages, 36 ounces. XX [From the inner flaps of the dust jacket] To the thousands of Americans who knew Edgar Cayce or were helped by him, he was unquestionably the most extraordinary living human being, even in an age which produced some far from average personalities. In 1876, on a farm in Christian County, Kentucky, Edgar Cayce was born into a family of old American stock. Devout, simple, earnest the boy did not seem destined for any kind of greatness, until, accidentally, he discovered himself possessed of a clairvoyance which appeared to have the power to help heal others, including the very members of his family. He fought against it with the fervor of an orthodox believer in the Christian tenets. The power was not to be denied, however. Time and again, as when he himself lost his voice and with it his job in a bookstore, or when his small son burned his eyes with exploding flashlight powder, or when his wife was dying, according to the doctors, of tuberculosis, he found himself reverting to it, carefully and reverently, for help. The help came, the cures were effected. Today there are many thousands of documented cases for which he gave the simple, undramatized "readings" that became his life work. The record of these readings is available for inspection by qualified persons at all times. For the believer?and it requires an indurated skepticism to deny the evidence presented by this book?the life of Edgar Cayce will be the story of one of the great psychics of all time. And for any open-minded reader, it is absorbing reading, a drama of human life and of the great questions which underlie all human experience. Edgar Cayce died in 1944, but the effect of his extraordinary powers will be felt by many people for a long time. XX ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Sugrue was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1907. After graduating from Washington and Lee University (where his roommate was Edgar Cayce's son, Hugh Lynn Cayce), and spending a year in graduate work, he became a reporter. His first position was on the staff of his own home town paper. From there he went to the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, and ultimately to the staff of the AMERICAN MAGAZINE. His writing career was also getting under way; as far back as 1933 he was collaborator on a book about technocracy, and subsequently he did much anonymous writing and editorial polishing of articles; stories, and even books. In 1940 his first novel, SUCH IS THE KINGDOM, was published. Since then he has written the popular STARLING OF THE WHITE HOUSE and more recently, has narrated the autobiographical story of Eddie Condon, WE CALLED IT MUSIC. Unexpectedly and tragically, he was struck down some years ago by a disease for which the doctors have as yet found no name. For many months he lay in bed, practically paralyzed, and almost no one conceded him a chance to survive. Late in 1942, however, he improved enough to become an active swimmer, due he believed, to the readings of Edgar Cayce. Thomas Sugrue died in 1953. Seller Inventory # 000247

Bibliographic Details

Title: There Is a River: Story of Edgar Cayce

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Publication Date: 1956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Poor