Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism PDF
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F REETHINKERS ALSO BY SUSAN JACOBY Half-Jew Wild Justice The Possible She Inside Soviet Schools Moscow Conversations F REETHINKERS A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SECULARISM SUSAN JACOBY Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Company, LLC Publishers since 1866 115 West 18th Street New York, New York 10011 Metropolitan Books™ is a registered trademark of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright © 2004 by Susan Jacoby All rights reserved. Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn and Company Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacoby, Susan, date. Freethinkers : a history of American secularism / Susan Jacoby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8050-7442-2 1. Secularism—United States—History. 2. Freethinkers—United States—History. I. Title. BL2760.J33 2004 211’.4’0973—dc22 2003059294 Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. For details contact: Director, Special Markets. First Edition 2004 Designed by Fritz Metsch The image of Thomas Paine is from an engraving in Samuel P. Putman, Four Hundred Years of Freethought (New York: Truth Seeker Company, 1984), and is used, along with the picture of Robert Ingersoll’s oration, courtesy of the Center for Inquiry/Council for Secular Humanism. The cartoon of “Mad Tom” and the images of Ernestine L. Rose, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton appear courtesy of the New York Public Library. The image of George E. Macdonald and the frontispiece, “The Story of the Truth Seeker,” originally appeared in Volume I, Fifty Years of Freethought (1929), published by the Truth Seeker Company. The image of Clarence Darrow originally appeared in Volume II, Fifty Years of Freethought (1931), published by the Truth Seeker Company. The photograph of President George W. Bush in prayer was taken by Eric Draper and is used with permission of the White House. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FOR ROBERT AND IRMA BRODERICK JACOBY
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