Herb Silverman,Richard Dawkins
In this deeply revealing and engaging autobiography, Herb Silverman tells his iconoclastic life story. He takes the reader from his childhood as an Orthodox Jew in Philadelphia, where he stopped fasting on Yom Kippur to test Godâ€™s existence, to his adult life in the heart of the Bible Belt, where he became a legendary figure within Americaâ€™s secular activist community and remains one of its most beloved leaders. Never one to shy from controversy, Silverman relates many of his high-profile battles with the Religious Right, including his decision to run for governor of South Carolina to challenge the stateâ€™s constitutional provision that prohibited atheists from holding public office. ,Candidate Without a Prayer, offers an intimate portrait of a central player in todayâ€™s increasingly heated culture wars.
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Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt