DOC A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie: The Correspondence of Joseph B. Polley; Hood's Texas Brigade (Voices of the Civil War) by From Brand: Univ Tennessee Press in History

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Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful; witty collection sets the record straight by profiling dozens of famous people who were skeptical of conventional religious beliefs. Included; among others; are Isaac Asimov; W.E.B. DuBois; Thomas Edison; Albert Einstein; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Benjamin Franklin; Omar Khayyam; Abraham Lincoln; James Madison; John Stuart Mill; Ayn Rand; Gene Roddenberry; Margaret Sanger; George Bernard Shaw; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; and Voltaire; with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.