| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State. By Daniel L. Dreisbach. (New York: New York University Press, 2002. x, 283 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-8147-1935-X.)

Few figures of speech have exercised a stronger hold over the American political and legal imagination, especially in the last half century, than Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation." Invoked by the Supreme Court in numerous church-state cases beginning with Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the metaphor's meaning and utility have been scrutinized and debated from seemingly every possible angle. Still, Daniel L. Dreisbach believes there is more to be learned because of the failure of scholars and jurists to pay close enough attention to the specific historical context out of which Jefferson wrote the phrase in his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut in early 1802.

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