The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought — How Historical Memory Erases
How does someone famous enough to fill lecture halls across America become nearly invisible to later generations?
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Using The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought by Susan Jacoby as our lens, this episode investigates the extraordinary influence—and subsequent disappearance—of Robert Green Ingersoll.
Jacoby portrays Ingersoll as a central figure in the golden age of American freethought: a celebrated orator who defended reason, science, humanism, liberty of conscience, and church-state…
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