Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza

For four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with rel...