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A Spectacular Inheritance

What I Kept and What I Left Behind

By Margaret Eastman Smith


A “groundbreaking” account of one woman’s experience coming of age inside Moral Re-Armament, previously known as the Oxford Group, the evangelical conflict resolution organization that spawned both Alcoholics Anonymous and Up With People. Margaret grew up entirely in the movement, worked for it until she was thirty-five, and later became a college professor of international peacemaking.

Amid vivid memories of the unusual life she shared with the community, and her evolving view of it, she winds her own story of finding herself and the values she could rely on, even as she steps away.

Publishes:

August 11, 2026

Publisher:

Sibylline Press

Format:

Paperback, 424 pages

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Foreword

Robert Fox, MSW, LICSW
New England Institute of Existential Therapy

About Sibylline Press

Sibylline Press is a woman-owned publishing company that is proud to publish the brilliant work of women authors over fifty.

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Family Photos 

1951

Margaret with her parents, Stuart and Polly Ann Smith, Hollywood 

1954

Margaret with Mary Jean Carlisle, Mackinac Island

1955

Margaret and her parents, with her aunt and uncle George and Louisa Eastman, gather to farewell George Sr. and Polly (behind) when they depart for the Statemen's Mission

1957

Margaret's grandfather, George Eastman, playing golf with Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi of Japan in Los Angeles

1958

Margaret and her parents, Mackinac Island 

1993

Mary Jean (Carlisle) Freebury visits Margaret in Cambridge, Massachusetts

1999

Margaret's parents, Stuart and Polly Ann Smith, at Margaret's Ph.D. graduation

2005

Margaret addresses a group at American University

2021

Margaret and her husband, Philip Tyndale-Biscoe