false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174964926m/463263.jpg 463263 2 "Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected achievements of secularists who, allied with tolerant believers, have led the battle for reform in the past and today.Rich with such iconic figures as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, and the once-famous Robert Green Ingersoll, Freethinkers restores to history the passionate humanists who struggled against those who would undermine the combination of secular government and religious liberty that is the glory of the American system. 1629864 2004 Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism total:258|5:89|4:113|3:48|2:7|1:1| 258 1056 567 45 5 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 05:33:48 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 05:47:16 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 29 07:56:10 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 14:23:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 17:04:49 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 17:06:09 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Jun 04 10:32:25 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 07:22:19 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 10:32:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Feb 12 23:13:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 23:17:05 -0800 2008 This is one of those books you read, enjoy, and are satisfied by and then when someone asks you what was the last good book you read your mind tries in vain to remember it.


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