The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
- ISBN-10
- 0300137257
- ISBN-13
- 9780300137255
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-08
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Author
- Susan Jacoby
Description
A biography that restores America's foremost 19th-century champion of reason and secularism to the still contested 21st-century public square.
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