num_pages: 580
description: Americas founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient pagan and continental ideas from which Americas revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza Lucretius and other great philosophers Stewart recovers the true meanings of Natures God the pursuit of happiness and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.
language: English
title: Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company