Susan Jacoby, Author . Holt/Metropolitan $26 (417p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7442-0
Is America really one nation under God? Not according to Pulitzer Prize–finalist Jacoby (Wild Justice
, etc.), who argues that it is America's secularist "freethinkers" who formed the bedrock upon which our nation was built....
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Susan Jacoby, Author . Pantheon $26 (356p) ISBN 978-0-375-42374-1
Inspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
, Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
) has produced an engaging, updated and meticulously thought-out continuation of...
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Susan Jacoby, Pantheon, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-37794-4
"I am about to present a portrait of advanced old age," Jacoby (The Age of American Unreason) warns, "that some will find too pessimistic and negative." Her portrait of the emotional, physical, fiscal, and mental problems debunks popular myths about
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Susan Jacoby, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-684-83250-0
In this poignant mix of family history and memoir, journalist Jacoby (Wild Justice) unravels the thick fabric of lies that her father, Robert, wove around his past. Raised in a happy Catholic home, Jacoby was in her early 20s when she learned that...
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Susan Jacoby. Yale Univ., $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-13725-5
A rare all-American atheist is celebrated in this provocative if hagiographic sketch. Journalist and atheist intellectual Jacoby (Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism) recaps the Gilded Age career of Robert Green Ingersoll, an influential...
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Susan Jacoby. Pantheon, $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-375-42375-8
Jacoby (The Great Agnostic and Freethinkers) has spent 15 years writing this fine secular inquiry into the history of religious conversion in the West. Beginning with the famous Damascus road conversion of Saul to Paul and then moving on to...
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