[PDF] The Truth Seeker Boston eBook

Author : Roderick Bradford
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1615926526

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DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was nineteenth-century America''s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the "blasphemous" New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression "banned in Boston" was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described Thomas Paine infidel became the most successful publisher of freethought literature in America - perhaps the world. Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, and Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," were only a few of the illustrious freethinkers who subscribed to the periodical devoted to "science, morals, freethought and human happiness." But Bennett''s opposition to dogmatic religion and puritanical obscenity laws so infuriated Anthony Comstock, the U.S. Post Office''s "special agent" and self-proclaimed "weeder in God''s garden," that the freethinking publisher was eventually prosecuted, subjected to a controversial and widely publicized trial, and finally imprisoned.Based on original sources and extensively researched, this in-depth yet accessible biography of D.M. Bennett offers a fascinating glimpse into the turbulent period of late nineteenth-century America-the Gilded Age, a time when our nation was controlled by pious politicians, powerful manufacturers, and censorious clergymen. Roderick Bradford follows Bennett''s evolution from a devout Shaker to an unremitting skeptic and America''s most iconoclastic publisher. He details the circumstances that led to Bennett''s historically significant New York obscenity trial and the monumental, though ultimately unsuccessful, petition campaign for a pardon. This was the largest protest of its kind in the nineteenthcentury and one that went all the way to the White House. Bradford also investigates Bennett''s prominent role in the National Liberal League, his interactions with leading suffragists and the National Defense Association (a forerunner of the ACLU), and his flirtation with spiritualism and theosophy.Roderick Bradford has written a valuable historical contribution, a long-overdue tribute to a free-speech champion, and a colorful depiction of memorable characters and events during a period of great change in American history.

Author : Cecilia Dominic
Publisher : AIBHS
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1945074337

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An immortal on a mission. A man trapped in a labyrinth. Can she control the maze before their world crumbles? Maggie has grown weary of outliving everything she knows and loves. Numb to her job as a supernatural detective, she vows her next mission will be her last. But when the case alerts her to an enchanted series of tunnels, saving the mortal trapped in its mystical network may be the least of her troubles. Philippe was ready for a new line of work when a magical coffee bean whisked him halfway across all of creation. Desperate to stay alive in a world the roadie doesn’t understand, laying eyes on his beautiful savior Maggie gives him extra motivation to survive. If only he can avoid doing something stupid that destroys all of humanity… With a reckless mortal in tow, Maggie’s unsure she can prevent the dark-roasted portals from unleashing a hellishly destructive evil. Can the roadie and the immortal defeat the builders of the passages in time to save the world? Truth Seeker is the first book in the imaginative Dream Weavers and Truth Seekers urban fantasy series. If you like mythical realms, startling twists, and a hint of paranormal romance, then you’ll love Cecilia Dominic’s supernatural adventure. Buy Truth Seeker to caffeinate your imagination today!

Author : C. E. Murphy
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345523024

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ACROSS TWO EXTRAORDINARY WORLDS, TRUTH IS THE DEADLIEST MAGIC Gifted with an uncanny intuition, Lara Jansen nonetheless thinks there is nothing particularly special about her. All that changes when a handsome but mysterious man enters her quiet Boston tailor shop and reveals himself to be a prince of Faerie. What’s more, Dafydd ap Caerwyn claims that Lara is a truthseeker, a person with the rare talent of being able to tell truth from falsehood. Dafydd begs Lara to help solve his brother’s murder, of which Dafydd himself is the only suspect. Acting against her practical nature, Lara agrees to step through a window into another world. Caught between bitterly opposed Seelie forces and Dafydd’s secrets, which are as perilous as he is irresistible, Lara finds that her abilities are increasing in unexpected and uncontrollable ways. With the fate of two worlds at stake and a malevolent entity wielding the darkest of magic, Lara and Dafydd will risk everything on a love that may be their salvation—or the most treacherous illusion of all. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691183112

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A compelling history of atheism in American public life A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation’s moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close of the nineteenth century—were also hailed for their gutsy dissent from stultifying pieties and for posing a necessary secularist challenge to the entanglements of church and state. In Village Atheists, Leigh Eric Schmidt explores the complex cultural terrain that unbelievers have long had to navigate in their fight to secure equal rights and liberties in American public life. He rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels. Village Atheists demonstrates that the secularist vision for the United States proved to be anything but triumphant in a country where faith and citizenship were—and still are—closely interwoven.