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How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War
St. Martin's Griffin
May 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
352 pages
ISBN: 0312378440
EAN: 9780312378448
Paperback
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Led by the immense behind-the-scenes influence of Dr. James
Dobson, Focus on the Family has grown from its roots as a
California radio show dispensing parenting advice to an
unrivaled media ministry broadcasting on more than two
thousand stations in the United States alone. Dobson has
supplanted Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Ralph Reed as
the political spokesman for tens of millions of American
evangelical Christians--even though he is not a minister,
but a family therapist with a doctorate in child
development.
Dobson maintains that American political and social values
are firmly rooted in Christian tradition--one that has come
under siege beginning in the 1960s, as court rulings
undermined the importance of religion in public policy.
With the support of evangelical followers, Dobson has built
a powerful political machine at both state and national
levels to wage a crusade against abortion, gay rights, the
teaching of evolution, stem cell research, and judicial
activism.
Through painstaking research and interviews with leading
evangelicals, including Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell, Ralph
Reed, and James Dobson himself, along with rare access to
Focus on the Family and its affiliated organizations, Dan
Gilgoff reveals the scope of Dobson's empire and its
implications for the future of America.
This paperback edition includes a new afterword covering
the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates--
Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Huckabee, McCain, Giuliani,
Romney, and Thompson--as they court Dobson and the
evangelical vote in 2008.
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