Joseph McCabe: The Haldeman-Julius Years

By Michael Lloyd-Jones

In January 1926 Joseph McCabe, a former priest turned prominent rationalist writer and lecturer, travelled to the Kansas town of Girard to meet Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the 'Henry Ford of publishing', whose business was the home of the stunningly successful series of Little Blue Books . Before McCabe left the following day he had agreed to write fifty 'Little Blue Books' that set out to make the complete case against religion. These little books amounted to a devastating critique of the entire theological machinery. Over the next twenty-five years Haldeman-Julius would go on to publish hundreds more books by Joseph McCabe, including a forty-volume guide to all modern knowledge, a 360,000 word history of the Roman Catholic Church, a history of morals and a twenty-book series uncovering the support lent to fascism by Pope Pius XII. Despite many attempts to suppress these and other books by the same author, Haldeman-Julius succeeded in selling McCabe's books by the million. Michael Lloyd-Jones has spent years researching Joseph McCabe's life and work and in this study he uncovers the story behind McCabe's collaboration with Emanuel Haldeman-Julius - the most successful partnership in freethought publishing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NNM64C
• ISBN13: 9798316946785
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 153 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"