Freethinkers
Subtitle: a history of American secularism
By: Susan Jacoby.
Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan/Owl
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
Subjects: Secularism -- United States -- History; Freethinkers -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-397) and index.
Table of contents: title: Revolutionary secularism; title: The age of reason and unreason; title: Lost connections: anticlericalism, abolitionism, and feminism; title: The belief and unbelief of Abraham Lincoln; title: Evolution and its discontents; title: The great agnostic and the golden age of freethought; title: Dawn of the culture wars; title: Unholy trinity: Atheists, Reds, Darwinists; title: Onward, Christian soldiers; title: The best years of our lives; title: Culture wars redux; title: Reason embattled.