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A Short Biography of Joseph Lewis

Author Name:

Joseph Lewis

Born As:

Other Names:

Joseph Lewis

Born:

1889

Died:

1968




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Selected Works:

The Tyranny of God - 1921
Lincoln, the Freethinker - 1925
Jefferson, the Freethinker - 1925
The Bible Unmasked - 1926
Franklin, the Freethinker - 1926
Burbank, the Infidel - 1929
Voltaire, the Incomparable Infidel - 1929
Atheism, a collection of his public addresses - 1930
The Bible and the Public Schools - 1931
Should Children Receive Religious Instruction? - 1933
The Ten Commandments - 1946
Thomas Paine, Author of the Declaration of Independence - 1947
In the Name of Humanity - 1949
An Atheist Manifesto - 1954
Ingersoll, The Magnificent - 1957

                          
                          
President of Freethinkers of America - from 1920.

Started his own publishing company, the Freethought Press Association, where he published literature about freethought written by himself and others. 

In the 1930s, Lewis expanded his business with a subsidiary, Eugenics Publishing Company, that published literature written by medical experts about subjects such as contraception.
A bulletin, Freethinkers of America, was started by Lewis in 1937. In the 1940s it was renamed Freethinker and in the 1950s to its final name Age of Reason, named after Thomas Paine's book The Age of Reason. Contributors to the bulletin were, among others, William J. Fielding, Corliss Lamont and Franklin Steiner.