PETER IRONS
Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION/ACLU OF WASHINGTON. A leading attorney, scholar, and author on matters of the constitution, civil liberties, and the Supreme Court in the U.S., Peter Irons is here tonight with his important new book, God on Trial: Dispatches from America's Religious Battlefields (Viking). This book examines numerous cases from the past few decades, tracing the ascendancy of a certain politicized view of religion as it has been played through the courts. As a lawyer, and here, as an author, Peter Irons weighs in with the long and studied view. Among his many other works are the bestselling May It Please the Court, Jim Crow's Children, and A People's History of the Supreme Court. "Irons provides exciting blow-by-blow accounts of the legal battles...Irons's accounts clarify the legal issues in these important cases as well as what one federal judge called the Supreme Court's 'utterly standardless' decisions, failing to provide clear boundaries for the role of religion in the public square." - Publishers Weekly.

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