September 19, 2006 (hardcover), January 8, 2008 (paperback)
Media type
Hardcover, paperback
Pages
96 (hardcover), 144 (paperback)
ISBN
0-307-26577-3
OCLC
70158553
Dewey Decimal
277.3
LC Class
BR516. H255 2006
Preceded by
The End of Faith
Followed by
The Moral Landscape
Letter to a Christian Nation is a 2006 book by Sam Harris, written in response to feedback he received following the publication of his first book The End of Faith. The book is written in the form of an open letter to a Christian in the United States. Harris states that his aim is "to demolish the intellectual and moral pretensions of Christianity in its most committed forms." In October it entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number seven.[1]
^"Best Sellers – Hardcover Nonfiction". New York Times. October 8, 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-21.
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