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Brooke Allen


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Brooke Allen's critical writings appear frequently in the New York Times Book Review, the Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The Hudson Review, and The Nation. Her Twentieth-Century Attitudes was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent book is Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers." ...more

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Moral Minority: Our Skeptic...

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“[The Founding Fathers] were not advocates for a monolithic notion of "God and Country," as promoters of a Christian America would now have us believe. They were precisely the opposite: the very prototypes, in fact, of the East Coast intellectuals we are always being warned against by today's religious right.”
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“George Washington rewrote the presidential addresses crafted for him by others so as to omit all references to Jesus Christ.”
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“When Franklin assumed the office of governor of Pennsylvania in 1786,”
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