The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair
• Skeptics & Atheists
From a review of Bryan F. Le Beau's The Atheist: Madalyn Murray O’Hair:
The Atheist is at heart an intellectual biography. For Le Beau, the evolution of O’Hair’s atheist doctrines is where the real action is. Whole chapters, including a stretch of more than 100 pages, go to paraphrasing O’Hair’s philosophy, as it was detailed in public comments, a diary, a radio program, and writings such as Why I Am an Atheist (1966) and Freedom Under Siege (1974). O’Hair, as represented here, lays out a compelling case against religion and for atheism as an honorable, inspiring system of belief. Whether that system ever crossed the frontier into faith is a bit of woolgathering this book rarely indulges.
Tim Cavanaugh, Reason: Thanks be to the American Atheist.