2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt

Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful, witty collection sets the record straight by profiling dozens of famous people who were skeptical of conventional religious beliefs. Included, among others, are Isaac Asimov, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Omar Khayyam, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Gene Roddenberry, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Voltaire, with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 06/01/1996
ISBN: 9781573920674
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.80w x 0.95d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/1997 pg. 1358