Research Catalog

Title

The religious beliefs of our Presidents : from Washington to F.D.R. / Franklin Steiner.

Author

Steiner, Franklin.

Publication

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995.

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Description

190 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

The Freethought library

Uniform Title

The Freethought library.

Subject

Presidents > United States > Religion

Note

• Originally published: Girard, Kan. :Haldeman-Julius Publications, c1936.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• George Washington, the vestryman who was not a communicant -- Presidents who were Presbyterians : Andrew Jackson -- James Knox Polk -- James Buchanan -- Grover Cleveland -- Benjamin Harrison -- Woodrow Wilson -- Presidents who were Unitarians : John Adams -- John Quincy Adams -- Millard Fillmore -- William Howard Taft -- Presidents who were Episcopalians : Franklin Pierce -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Presidents who were not members of any Church : William Henry Harrison -- andrew Johnson -- Ullysses Simpson Grant -- Rutherford Birchard Hayes -- Presidents whose religious views are doubtful : James Madison -- James MOnroe -- Martin Van Buren -- John Tyler -- Zachary Taylor -- Chester Alan Arthur.
• Thomas Jefferson, Freethinker -- abraham Lincoln, Diest and admirer of Thomas Paine -- James Abram Garfield, the preacher president -- Theodore Roosevelt, Dutch Reformed, but not very religious -- The Beliefs of our "Prosperity" presidents : Warren Gamaliel Harding, Baptist -- Calvin Coolidge, Congregationalist -- Jerbert Clark Hoover, Quaker -- Washington's last sickness and death -- Religious opinions and habits of Washington -- Dr. Holland and the "Bateman interview" -- Testimony of w.H. Herndon, Lincoln's law partner for 22 years, concerning his religious belief -- Thanksgiving proclamations.

ISBN

0879759755 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95010599^

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Harvard Library