![]() ![]() ![]() In this provocative biography, Susan Jacoby, the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in an American intellectual tradition extending from Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine to the current generation of ‘new atheists’. To the question that retains its controversial power today – was the United States founded as a Christian nation? Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the U.S. The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a vigour unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. ![]() During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as The Great Agnostic. ![]()
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