Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's "Creator and "Nature's God," on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right's goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States was founded on Biblical law. Understand everything from the argument to the documentation that Dershowitz uses to disprove this historical distortion.

Author: Alan Dershowitz
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.29w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780470281680
ISBN10: 0470281685
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Conservatism & Liberalism
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
- Political Science | Religion, Politics & State

About the Author

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individualliberties. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah, Preemption, and the Wiley books The Case for Israel, also a New York Times bestseller; The Case for Peace; What Israel Means to Me; and Finding Jefferson. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.