American Freethought

"This book traces the history of the freethought movement to discover the strategies that allowed it to endure and succeed in a fervently religious nation. It argues that this movement was successful because it united people with a wide variety of religious outlooks-including deists, pantheists, Unitarians, Universalists, spiritualists, transcendentalists, Humanists, agnostics, and atheists-behind the idea that religion is freer and the state is more just when the government refrains from religious involvement"--