One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465097413 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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New York Times Book Review
Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.To fight the slavery” of FDR’s New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for freedom under God” that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made In God We Trust” the country’s first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was one nation under God.”Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.. We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics
"One Nation Under GodDivisible" according to Jon Hunt. "How Corporate America invented Christian America" is a perfect subtitle to Kevin Kruse's excellent book, "One Nation Under God", for as the author discusses, this is what happened to our culture over the course of several decades. It's an eye-opener and he presents an offering full of depth and insight.As Kruse reminds us in the epilogue, the source of America's becoming a "Christian" nation stems from the vitriol of those clergymen who opposed t. Amazon Customer said Documentation of eroding seperation of Church & State. Excellent documentation on how the Pledge of Allegiance was modified along with ‘In God We Trust’ inserted on all U.S.coins and currency. Kruse provides history of how industrial big-wigs in an attempt to rescind the ‘New Deal’ (because they didn’t want to support any measure of social welfare) promoted conservative aspects of the Bible in an effort to convince American voters to roll back the New Deal. They inserted . Stranded on third base Michael Keller Prof. Kruse wanders away from the promise of the subtitle of his book--"How corporate America Invented Christian America." He almost gets there when he describes the ideological opposition of the wealthy to F.D.R's "New Deal." and their caricature of the "social gospel" as Communist propaganda. His description of Truman's encounter with Billy Graham is wonderful. For a book published in 2015, Kruse makes only slight mention of the fact that the po