| Description |
ix, 246 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
During the Gilded Age, Ingersoll raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigor unmatched since America's revolutionary generation. Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition, as public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. |
| Contents |
The making of an iconoclast -- The political insider and the religious outsider -- Champion of science -- The humanistic freethinker -- Church and state -- Reason and passion -- Death and afterlife. |
| Subject |
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.
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Freethinkers -- United States -- Biography.
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Freethinkers -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780300137255 (clothbound : alk. paper) |
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0300137257 (clothbound : alk. paper) |
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