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American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation Audiobook, by Kirsten Fischer Play Audiobook Sample

American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation Audiobook

American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation Audiobook, by Kirsten Fischer Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Nan McNamara Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666119404

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

59:15 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

20:02 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

46:17 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

When the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required no religious foundation. A better source for morality, he said, could be found in the natural world. For this, his Christian critics denounced him as a heretic whose ideas endangered the country.

One of the most infamous American freethinkers in his day, Elihu Palmer has been largely forgotten. No cache of his personal papers exists and his book has been long out of print. Yet his story merits telling, Kirsten Fischer argues, and not only for the dramatic account of a man who lost his eyesight before the age of thirty and still became a book author, newspaper editor, and itinerant public speaker.

Palmer's "heresy" tested the nation's recently proclaimed commitment to freedom of religion and of speech. Fischer reveals that Palmer engaged in person and in print with an array of freethinkers—some famous, others now obscure. This first comprehensive biography of Palmer draws on extensive archival research to tell the life story of a freethinker who was at the heart of the new nation's protracted contest over religious freedom and free speech—a debate that continues to resonate today.

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About Nan McNamara

Michael Butler Murray is an audiobook narrator as well as an actor and producer known for Jersey Boys, Frontera, The Day of the Grackle, and iCarly: iGo to Japan.