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Also by Kevin M. Kruse:

One Nation Under God, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book

ONE NATION UNDER GOD
By: Kevin M. Kruse

How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Basic Books
April 2015
On Sale: April 14, 2015
384 pages
ISBN: 0465049494
EAN: 9780465049493
Kindle: B00PWX7R56
Hardcover / e-Book
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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.

Media Buzz

Fresh Air - NPR - March 30, 2015