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The Book That Changed America by Randall Fuller

This heady book about the emergence of Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shows how it forever changed the world’s view on science and religion. The reader is introduced to noteworthy intellectuals of this time period including Asa Gray, Franklin Sanborn, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Frederick Douglass; and how their views about religion, science, and nature were affected by Darwin’s theory of evolution. This is timely and poignant, as 150 years later, these same issues are being debated by our current political, scientific, and religious leaders.

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