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How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Basic Books
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
384 pages
ISBN: 0465049494
EAN: 9780465049493
Kindle: B00PWX7R56
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Non-Fiction
Conventional wisdom holds that America has been a Christian
nation since the Founding Fathers. But in One Nation
Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea
of “Christian America” is nothing more than a myth—and a
relatively recent one at that.
The assumption that
America was, is, and always will be a Christian nation dates
back no further than the 1930s, when a coalition of
businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to
the FDR’s New Deal. With the full support of Dwight
Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists—the forerunners of
the Religious Right—propelled religion into the public
sphere. Church membership skyrocketed; Congress added the
phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In
God We Trust” the country’s official motto. For the first
time, America became a thoroughly religious nation.
Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under
God reveals how the comingling of money, religion, and
politics created a false origin story that continues to
define and divide American politics today.
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