“Before ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’ came the first American gift to the world: freedom of conscience. Without it the whole history of the nation–and of the world–might be very different, and we are lucky indeed that Steven Waldman has written this compelling and incisive study of the most fundamental and essential breakthroughs of modernity: the right to believe, or not, as one wishes. This is a great book about a monumental issue.” –Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of…

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