Susan Jacoby talked about her book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History ( Yale University Press March 24, 2009). Recent entries include: 'Its the Theocrats, Stupid,' 'Secularism: The New Taboo,' and 'Were Electing a. Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American. She is co-author of the book Soul to Soul: The Story of a Black-Russian-American Family. Susan Jacoby is a frequent contributor to NEWSWEEK and THE WASHINGTON POSTs OnFaith blog. Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (New York: Henry Holt, 2004), 18. This book provides an important narrative of the impact of freethinkers in the creation of the first secular government in the world. She has written many books including The Age of American Unreason Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism Inside Soviet Schools and Moscow Conversations. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 'Freethinkers' is a fascinating historical account of the role of freethinkers in United States. Susan Jacoby has written on a variety of subjects for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, Harper’s and The Nation. She uses the Alger Hiss espionage case to examine shifting American political views in the way scholars and the media on both the left and the right have changed the way they view the case from 1948 to the present post-Cold War era. Moving from nineteenth-century abolitionism and suffragism through the twentieth century's civil liberties, civil rights, and feminist movements, Freethinkers illuminates the neglected achievements of secularists who, allied with tolerant believers, have led the battle for reform in the past and today.

In her book she looks at the public fascination with the case of Whitaker Chambers and Alger Hiss that culminated in 1948 with hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. T20:00:00-04:00 Susan Jacoby talked about her book Alger Hiss and the Battle for History (Yale University Press March 24, 2009).

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