Bøger af Robert Ingersoll

THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The American Bible: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings Part 12, by Robert Ingersoll. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076610382X.

Known as The Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll was renowned for his unmatched wit and command of logical argument. Filled with many of his greatest speeches on the topic of religion, this is an essential reading for both the non-believer and the religious observer.

Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century with his lectures on "freethought." His admirers included Mark Twain and Thomas A. Edison, who said Ingersoll had "all the attributes of a perfect man" and went so far as to make an early recording of Ingersoll's voice.The publication of What's God Got to Do with It? will return Robert Ingersoll and his ideas to American political discourse. Edited and with a biographical introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page, this new popular collection of Ingersoll's thought - distilled from the twelve-volume set of his works, his copious letters, and various newspaper interviews - promises to put Ingersoll back where he belongs, in the forefront of independent American thought.