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Fighting Words

A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right

Robin Morgan
September 2006     ISBN: 1560259485

Most Americans lack the tools for arguing with the religious right, especially when fundamentalist conservatives claim their positions originated with the framers of the Constitution. Until now...

The religious right is gaining enormous power in the United States, thanks to a well-organized, media savvy movement with powerful friends in high places. Yet many Americans--observant and secular--are alarmed by this trend, especially by efforts to erase the boundary between church and state, re-making the United States into a "Christian nation."

In Fighting Words, Robin Morgan has assembled a toolkit for arguing, a verbal karate guide: a lively, accessible, eye-opening collection revealing what the framers (and other leading Americans) really believed--in their own words. She resurrects the Founders as the revolutionaries they were: "A hodgepodge of free-thinkers, Deists, agnostics, Christians, atheists, Freemasons--and radicals."

What readers are saying

�Here are the real words of our founders, free of the prison of right-wing distortion--and we've never needed them more!�
�Gloria Steinam

"A crucial, must-have book!"
--Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

"Robin Morgan channels the Framers in her new book, Fighting Words." Recommended.
--Feminist Law Professors (recommended)

About the Authors

Robin Morgan is an award-winning writer, political analyst, journalist, feminist leader and editor of the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood is Powerful, Sisterhood is Global, and Sisterhood is Forever. Her latest books include A Hot January: Poems, Saturday's Child: A Memoir; her best-selling The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism; and a new novel, The Burning Time. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry) and numerous other honors, she lives in New York City. Visit her website at www.robinmorgan.us.

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