America's Most Hated Woman The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Pub. Date: 2005-03-18
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

This is the real story of Madalyn Murray O'Haire, "the most hated woman in America," by the only author to interview her killer and those close to him, and to witness the O'Haire family's secret burial in Austin, Texas.

Table of Contents

1 Waterloo 11(6)
Part One THE BEGINNING
2 Madalyn Evalyn
17(4)
3 Rossford, Ohio
21(3)
4 Love and War
24(4)
5 Master William Mays
28(4)
6 "I'm an outsider"
32(9)
7 A Discreet Inquiry
41(7)
8 "Your petitioners are atheists"
48(6)
9 A Huge Amount of Confusion
54(5)
10 The Most Hated Woman in America
59(3)
11 "You got your wish, Spider"
62(6)
12 June 17, 1963
68(2)
13 In Government We Trust
70(4)
14 "Get that bitch!"
74(10)
15 Training School for Boys
84(4)
16 The Switzerland of Mexico
88(7)
17 Rebels without a Cause
95(3)
18 Extraordinary Freedom in Texas
98(6)
19 Mothers and Daughters
104(4)
20 Poor Richard and Devil O'Hair
108(6)
21 Houston, We've Got a Problem
114(4)
22 To Mother, with Love
118(3)
23 Dr. O'Hair
121(4)
24 Money and Power
125(6)
Part Two THE MIDDLE
25 Give Me a Child the First Seven Years
131(3)
26 We Are the Leaders
134(5)
27 $3 and Half a Pack of Salems
139(1)
28 Please Come Home
140(3)
29 The American Atheist
143(3)
30 "Somebody, somewhere, love me"
146(4)
31 Signs of Distress
150(2)
32 "Mama, you need to be dead"
152(4)
33 Living on Memories
156(5)
34 "Shut your mouth, woman!"
161(3)
35 The Demon Directed Damsel
164(6)
36 "I'm going to take a two by four and hit Austin between the eyes"
170(5)
37 Bloody Sunday
175(3)
38 "Some human dignity, some grace in living"
178(5)
39 Circle the Wagons
183(3)
40 The We of Us
186(4)
41 The Anti Christer
190(4)
42 A Double Murder
194(1)
43 In Vino Veritas
195(5)
44 Greystone Sanctuary
200(3)
45 High Hopes for Mankind
203(3)
46 Mommie Dearest
206(6)
47 Enemies
212(2)
48 Hustler
214(5)
49 The Honor Farm
219(3)
50 Where There's a Will
222(3)
51 Two Fateful Things
225(4)
52 Forever Proletariat
229(3)
53 Racketeering
232(3)
54 Falling Apart
235(8)
Part Three THE END
55 Colleen
243(4)
56 Downward Spiral
247(4)
57 Just Do Your Job and Leave
251(3)
58 Firings and Thefts
254(7)
59 "I have lived a long, long time"
261(5)
60 A Lot of Reason to Kill Someone
266(7)
61 "It was a kidnapping"
273(4)
62 Dallas County Detectives and the FBI
277(4)
63 Prose and Cons
281(4)
64 For Sale to the Highest Bidder
285(3)
65 What Colleen Saw
288(8)
66 Happy Birthday
296(5)
67 No Bodies
301(2)
68 Hell Hath No Fury
303(4)
69 Star Witness
307(7)
70 A Small Corner of the Outdoors
314(5)
71 Unanswered Questions
319(2)
72 Father Prison
321(4)
73 "That smell stayed on me for a long time"
325(8)
74 "God isn't a merciful God"
333(2)
Appendix 335(2)
Acknowledgments 337(4)
Notes 341(36)
Bibliography 377(6)
Index 383

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