The lustre of our country : the American experience of religious freedom

by John Thomas Noonan.

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998.

In this compellingly written, distinctively personal book, Judge John T. Noonan asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth. The Lustre of Our Country demonstrates how the idea of religious liberty is central to the American experience and to American influence around the world