SOURCE: Weber, Katharine. “Starry-Eyed.” Washington Post Book World (9 April 2000): 3.

In the following review, Weber offers a positive assessment of Two Moons, commenting that “Mallon has a fabulous eye for the people at the edge of the historical picture.”

It is a time when scientific discoveries and technological innovations are the stuff of daily headlines. Never before has mankind known so much about the natural world and our relationship to it. The more scientific information we accumulate, however, the more we embrace the paranormal, the otherworldly, the spiritual.

In this innovative time, many powerful people, while respecting and even celebrating the scientific discoveries of the day, see no conflict in being dependent on personal astrologers for daily guidance. In Washington, despite (or as a consequence of) the booming peacetime economy, corruption in government thrives. Every day, politicians are cosily helping the rich get richer while the needs of ordinary...