The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: ix, 246 pages ; 22 cm
Profiles the nineteenth-century orator known as "the Great Agnostic," who spoke out on reason, secularism, and separation of church and state, and explores his place in the American intellectual tradition.
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.
Subjects:
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.
Freethinkers -- United States -- Biography.
Freethinkers -- United States -- History.
Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899.
Freethinkers -- United States -- Biography.
Freethinkers -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
0300137257
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Ingersoll, Robert Green | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.