Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's most determined, most notable, and perhaps most denounced Atheist.
Trade ReviewClear-eyed and judicious. * The Women's Review of Books *
Le Beaus biography is the longer and better researched of two recently published lives of Murray. * The New Republic *
The Atheist belongs on the short shelf of books on American atheism, church-state relations, and school prayer * The Journal of American History *
Le Beau offers an informative and melancholy portrait of self-promotion and folly. * American Historical Review *
The Atheist is especially instructive today as issues of the separation of church and state continue to reverberate throughout our culture . . . well documented. * BOOK LOOK *
Table of Contents1 Out of Obscurity 2 Murray v. Curlett3 "The Most Hated Woman in America"4 "The Atheist"5 "Why I Am an Atheist"6 Articulating the Atheist Position7 O'Hair's Prominence Recedes8 O'Hair Retires
