At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority o...At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than two hundred years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of god from the constitution.