Freethinkers
Subtitle: A History of American Secularism
Edition: 2 Reprint edition
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780805077766
Subjects: United States - Revolutionary War; History: American; History; History - U.S.; History & Theory - General; Religion, Politics & State; United States - General; Religion / History
First sentence: The essential rationalism binding America's founding secularists to one another was memorably expressed by John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in an 1813 letter commenting on Britain's repeal of an old statue that made it a crime to deny the existence of the Holy Trinity.