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200 14$aThe atheist $eMadalyn Murray O'Hair /$fBryan F. Le Beau
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210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (401 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-368) and index.
327   $aOut of obscurity -- Murray v. Curlett -- The most hated woman in America -- The atheist -- Why I am an atheist -- Articulating the atheist position -- O'Hair's prominence recedes -- O'Hair retires -- Epilogue : The strange disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair.
330   $aIn 1964, Life magazine called Madalyn Murray O'Hair "the most hated woman in America." Another critic described her as "rude, impertinent, blasphemous, a destroyer not only of beliefs but of esteemed values.". In this first full-length biography, Bryan F. Le Beau offers a penetrating assessment of O'Hair's beliefs and actions and a probing discussion of how she came to represent both what Americans hated in their enemies and feared in themselves. Born in 1919, O'Hair was a divorced mother of two children born out of wedlock. She launched a crusade against God, often using foul language as she 
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