Freethinkers
Subtitle: A History of American Secularism
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: April 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780805074420
Subjects: Secularism; United States - Revolutionary War; Political Ideologies - General; History: American; Philosophy; United States - General; United States; Religion, Politics & State; History & Theory - General; Political; Religion / History; Freethinkers; 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.