The American Deists - Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic

Bringing together the works of six major American deists - Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and Philip Frenau – and the Frechman Comte de Volney, whose writings influenced the American deists, Kerry Walters has created the fullest analysis yet of deism and rational religion in colonial and early America.