Name: Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt
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Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780984493296

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Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herb Silverman

Preface by

Richard Dawkins

Publisher

Pitchstone Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9780984493296

Synopsis "Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt"

In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes the reader from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test God's existence, to his adult life in the heart of the Bible Belt, where he became a legendary figure within America's secular activist community and remains one of its most beloved leaders. Never one to shy from controversy, Silverman relates many of his high-profile battles with the Religious Right, including his decision to run for governor of South Carolina to challenge the state's constitutional provision that prohibited atheists from holding public office. He is equally candid about the battles he has faced in the secular community itself and the many hurdles he overcame in the historic step of politically uniting the country's major secular, humanist, and atheist groups under the banner of the Secular Coalition for America. Silverman combines a satirist's pen with an activist's passion, revealing in humorous and often moving ways a personal side few know. Candidate Without a Prayer offers an intimate portrait of a central player in today's increasingly heated culture wars.

Richard Dawkins

(Preface by)

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Chosen in 2013 as the world's most important intellectual by Prospect magazine, he rose to fame with The Selfish Gene, followed by The Blind Watchmaker, Climbing Mount Improbable, and Unweaving the Rainbow. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, such as the Royal Society of Literature award, the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards, and the International Cosmos Prize.

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