| Description |
ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| 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 -- Afterword: A letter to the "New" atheists -- Appendix A: Vivisection -- Appendix B: Robert Ingersoll's eulogy for Walt Whitman, March 30, 1892. |
| 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 a public figure who devoted his life to liberty of conscience belonging to the religious and nonreligious alike. |
| 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 alkaline paper $25.00 |
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0300137257 clothbound alkaline paper |
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