(thing) by viterbiSearcher Wed Sep 20 2000 at 12:26:06
The Aiken Bible was the first complete Bible printed in English in the independent United States. It has special significance to those who believe that America is destined to the land of the christian free rather than just the land of the free.

The Library of Congress has several copies and some recent Librarians of Congress (namely L. Quincy Mumford and James H. Billington) have sworn their oath of office on one of them.

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