Dateline Sunday, USA / Johns, Warren L / (PB/1967-1967/B+/USED)

Condition note: Book is gently used and may have light highlighting.

Dateline Sunday, U.S.A. is humorous, bizarre, tragic, but always fascinating--of man's tolerance of his fellowmen, as for centuries he has harnessed the power of the state to enforce a religious observance. Here, surely, is one of the paradoxes of American history: A nation "conceived in liberty," protected by an amendment guaranteeing separation of church and state, has never quite managed to unshackle itself from blue laws received as a legacy from colonial clergy and magistrates.

Table of Contents

1 "Something Borrowed, Something Blue"
2 New World, Old Laws
3 "Building a Wall of Separation"
4 "We Are Teaching the World"
5 "Upright Persons Have Been Thrust Into Prison"
6 Play Ball--Maybe!
7 "Those Who Oppose...Must Abide the Consequences"
8 Gold Rush, Sunday Style
9 Chameleon Sunday
10 First Day Versus First Amendment
11 Establishment--Religion or Recreation?
12 Free Exercise--Conscience or Commerce?
13 The Douglas Dissent
14 Blue-law Green Light
15 Sunday and the Golden State
16 The Right to Rest
17 The Fourth Dimension
18 Freedom Takes a Holiday
Appendix--Sunday Laws in the Early Centuries
Acknowledgments

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