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Autore: | LeBeau Bryan F |
Titolo: | The atheist [[electronic resource] ] : Madalyn Murray O'Hair / / Bryan F. Le Beau |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina: | 211/.8/092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Atheists - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-368) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Out 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The atheist |
ISBN: | 0-8147-5285-3 |
0-8147-6516-5 | |
1-4175-8827-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450226603321 |
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