Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry Reflections on Our First President's Famous Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, Of 1790 |
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Editor:
| Strom, Adam Eshet, Dan Feldberg, Michael |
Contribution by:
| Appiah, Kwame Anthony Auduc, Jean-Louis Barry, John M. Benite, Zvi Ben-Dor Burt, Robert A. Daniels, Lee A. Douthat, Ross Dreisbach, Daniel Evans, Eli N. Fraser, James W. Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Goldstein, Phyllis Haynes, Charles C. LaPlante, Eve Marsh, Jason Mendoza-Denton, Rodolfo Minow, Martha L. Myers, David N. Neuberger, Julia Nussbaum, Martha S. Patel, Eboo Reimers, Fernando M. Roy, Olivier Sarna, Jonathan D. Sexton, John Ungar, Irvin Waters, David Wermuth, James Wood, Gordon S. |
Preface by:
| Loeb, John L. |
Prologue by:
| Stern Strom, Margot |
Author:
| Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation Staff, |
ISBN: | 978-1-940457-11-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2015 |
Publisher: | Facing History & Ourselves
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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In Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry, 30 scholars from around the world and across the disciplines use George Washington's 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, as an entry point to engage with complex questions about religion, citizenship, and belonging in our increasingly diverse communities. Contributors include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philosopher and prize-winning author Anthony Appiah; author and activist Eboo Patel;...
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In Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry, 30 scholars from around the world and across the disciplines use George Washington's 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, as an entry point to engage with complex questions about religion, citizenship, and belonging in our increasingly diverse communities. Contributors include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philosopher and prize-winning author Anthony Appiah; author and activist Eboo Patel; Pulitizer Prize winning historian, Gordon Wood; and Dean of the Faculty of Law at Harvard University, Martha Minow.