Dm Bennett The Truth Seeker
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Author |
: Rod Bradford |
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Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015066739569 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis D. M. Bennett by : Rod Bradford
"Bennett's opposition to religion and puritanical obscenity laws infuriated Comstock, the self-proclaimed "weeder in God's garden." Comstock arrested Bennett for publishing his incendiary "An Open Letter to Jesus Christ" and entrapped the elderly editor for mailing a free-love pamphlet. Bennett was prosecuted, subjected to a widely publicized trial, and finally imprisoned in the Albany (New York) Penitentiary. "The charge is ostensibly 'obscenity,'" Bennett wrote. "But the real offense is that I presume to utter sentiments and opinions in opposition to the views entertained by the Christian Church.""
Author |
: Rod Bradford |
Publisher |
: Barricade Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1569802718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781569802717 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Truthseeker by : Rod Bradford
Author |
: Roderick Bradford |
Publisher |
: Prometheus Books |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2010-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615926527 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615926526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis D.M. Bennett, the Truth Seeker by : Roderick Bradford
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was nineteenth-century America''s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the "blasphemous" New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression "banned in Boston" was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described Thomas Paine infidel became the most successful publisher of freethought literature in America - perhaps the world. Mark Twain, Clarence Darrow, and Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Great Agnostic," were only a few of the illustrious freethinkers who subscribed to the periodical devoted to "science, morals, freethought and human happiness." But Bennett''s opposition to dogmatic religion and puritanical obscenity laws so infuriated Anthony Comstock, the U.S. Post Office''s "special agent" and self-proclaimed "weeder in God''s garden," that the freethinking publisher was eventually prosecuted, subjected to a controversial and widely publicized trial, and finally imprisoned.Based on original sources and extensively researched, this in-depth yet accessible biography of D.M. Bennett offers a fascinating glimpse into the turbulent period of late nineteenth-century America-the Gilded Age, a time when our nation was controlled by pious politicians, powerful manufacturers, and censorious clergymen. Roderick Bradford follows Bennett''s evolution from a devout Shaker to an unremitting skeptic and America''s most iconoclastic publisher. He details the circumstances that led to Bennett''s historically significant New York obscenity trial and the monumental, though ultimately unsuccessful, petition campaign for a pardon. This was the largest protest of its kind in the nineteenthcentury and one that went all the way to the White House. Bradford also investigates Bennett''s prominent role in the National Liberal League, his interactions with leading suffragists and the National Defense Association (a forerunner of the ACLU), and his flirtation with spiritualism and theosophy.Roderick Bradford has written a valuable historical contribution, a long-overdue tribute to a free-speech champion, and a colorful depiction of memorable characters and events during a period of great change in American history.
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer BENNETT |
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Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 1878 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:556699399 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bennett-Teed Discussion. Held in the Columns of the Truth Seeker, Between Its Editor, D.M. Bennett, and Mr. Cyrus Romulus R. Teed ... Propostion-Jesus Christ is Not Only Divine, But is the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, Teed Affirming; Bennett Denying by : De Robigne Mortimer BENNETT
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 151 |
Release |
: 1878 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:79141036 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bennett-Teed Discussion by : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
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Total Pages |
: 844 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89062392493 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Truth Seeker by :
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett |
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Total Pages |
: 948 |
Release |
: 1882 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433000371629 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Truth Seeker Around the World: From Bombay to Hong Kong by : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer Bennett |
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Total Pages |
: 852 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015076847105 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gods and Religions of Ancient and Modern Times ... by : De Robigne Mortimer Bennett
Author |
: De Robigne Mortimer BENNETT |
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Total Pages |
: 8 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1202851104 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trial of D. M. Bennett ... Upon the Charge of Depositing Prohibited Matter in the Mail. Reported by S. B. Hinsdale by : De Robigne Mortimer BENNETT
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Total Pages |
: 1756 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:C2593390 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Publishers' Trade List Annual by :