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Notes NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION 1. Paul Duggan, “The Atheists’ Cold Case Gets Warmer,” Washington Post, 16 August 1999, C1. 2. Martin E. Marty, “Freethought and Ethical Movements,” in Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience, ed. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), II: 739. 3. James Turner, Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985); Peter M. Rinaldo, Atheists , Agnostics, and Deists in America: A Brief History (Briarcliff Manor, NY: Dor Pete Press, 2000), chap. 1. 4. Rinaldo, 1, 13; Marty, 731. 5. Rinaldo, 2, 13–21, 24; Marty, 732. 6. Marty, 731. 7. Mary Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,” Anthology of American Literature, 2d ed., ed. George McMichael (New York: Macmillan, 1980), 1: 183. 8. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620–1647 (1856; New York: Modern Library, 1981), 227. 9. Rinaldo, 27, 48. 10. Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1970), 638. 11. Marty, 732. 12. Madalyn Murray O’Hair, What on Earth Is an Atheist! (Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1969), 140. 13. Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), 245–70; Jack Fruchtman, Jr., Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 3, 7, 52–53, 157, 160–61; Rinaldo, 47. 323 14. Sidney Warren, American Freethought, 1860–1914 (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 99–105; Stow Persons, Free Religion, An American Faith (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963). 15. Howard B. Radest, Toward Common Ground (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1969), 17–19, 29; Marty, 734; Robert S. Guttchen, Felix Adler (New York: Twayne, 1974), 17–26; Howard B. Radest, Felix Adler: An Ethical Culture (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 9–10. 16. Michael Lienesch, Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Right (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), 162–64; O’Hair, What On Earth Is An Atheist, 15. 17. Rinaldo, 88, 91–92. 18. Rinaldo, chap. 6; Orvin Larson, American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll (New York: Citadell Press, 1982); C. H. Cramer, Royal Bob: The Life of Robert G. Ingersoll (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1952). 19. Richard Drinnon, Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), chap. 5. 20. Alice Wexler, Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984), 91–92; Emma Goldman, Living My Life, ed. Richard Drinnon (New York: New American Library, 1977), 561. 21. Wexler, chap. 16. 22. Marty, 739. 23. Madalyn Murray O’Hair, An Atheist Speaks (Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1986), 13–18. 24. Rinaldo, 100, 104; Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1941), 431; Kevin Tierney, Darrow: A Biography (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979), 355. 25. Marty, 738. 26. Edward L. Ericson, The Humanist Way: An Introduction to Ethical Humanist Religion (New York: Continuum, 1998), xii–xiv; Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism, 8th ed., rev. (Amherst, NY: Humanist Press, 1997), 3. 27. Edwin H. Watson, The Genesis of a Humanist Manifesto (Amherst, NY: Humanist Press, 1995), 16–18, 96–99. 28. Marty, 738; Rinaldo, 126–130. 29. Lienesch, 196–97; Marty, 731. 30. Conrad Cherry, God’s New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), v. 31. Cherry, 65. 32. Lienesch, 196–97; Robert H. Bellah, The Broken Covenant: American Civil Religion in Time of Trial, 2d ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 1–60; Marty, 731. 33. Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert, “Introduction,” Rethinking Cold War 324 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION Culture, ed. Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), 1, 3. 34. Gus Hall, “The Caricature of Communism,” in Anticommunism and the U.S.: History and Consequences (Conference Proceedings) (New York: Institute for Media Analysis, 1988), n.p.; Lienesch, 160–61. 35. Kuznick and Gilbert, 2, 11. 36. Lee Strobel, What Jesus Would Say To: Rush Limbaugh, Madonna, Bill Clinton , Michael Jordan, Bart Simpson, Donald Trump, Murphy Brown, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Mother Teresa, David Letterman, and You (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994), 135. 37. Strobel, 123. 38. Lawrence Wright, Saints and Sinners: Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell, Matthew Fox (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 106. 39. Wright, 118–19. 40...