![]() ![]() Oscar Wilde called him the most intelligent man in America. He was the greatest orator of his time - post Civil War America - until his death in 1899. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited and with a biographical introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page, this new popular collection of Ingersoll’s thought – distilled from the twelve-volume set of his works, his copious letters, and various newspaper interviews – promises to put Ingersoll back where he belongs, in the forefront of independent American thought. Ingersoll is the greatest American nobody knows about. The publication of What’s God Got to Do with It? will return Robert Ingersoll and his ideas to American political discourse. Edited by the Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page, 'What's God Got to Do With It: Robert Ingersoll on Free Speech, Honest Talk and the Separation of Church and State' brought Ingersoll's thinking to a new audience. Edison, who said Ingersoll had “all the attributes of a perfect man” and went so far as to make an early recording of Ingersoll’s voice. In 2005, a popular edition of Ingersoll's work was published by Steerforth Press. An outspoken and unapologetic agnostic, fervent champion of the separation of church and state, and tireless advocate of the rights of women and African Americans, he drew enormous audiences in the late nineteenth century with his lectures on “freethought.” His admirers included Mark Twain and Thomas A. Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) is one of the great lost figures in United States history, all but forgotten at just the time America needs him most. ![]()
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