Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson Fiction_Gift_Guide from the New York Times

from the New York Times bestselling author of God Is Not Great

But when his school took away his right to something as simple as using the boy's restroom

in them)—had earned him the label “social deviant

“A moving tale of suffering and redemption

is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson Fiction_Gift_Guide from the New York TimesIn the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's