![]() ![]() Bush” and from Arthur Miller, who insists that “America’s precious freedom of conscience, her pride for two centuries, now under threat from the political Right as never before.” But Jacoby’s approach does manage to infuse her history with the urgency of a polemic. This is tendentious, and slightly silly–the book’s jacket, for example, features praise from Philip Roth, who calls it “as necessary a book as could be published in the fourth year of the ministry of George W. If present trends continue, she seems to think, America is destined for a return to the Salem Witch Trials. ![]() She’s not reluctant to mix in her current political preferences with the politics of her historical narrative jabs at President Bush and the religious right abound. The axe that Jacoby–an independent scholar and author of six previous non-fiction books–is grinding throughout Freethinkers is with Christian conservatism. ![]()
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