One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kruse Kevin M.Paperback
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kruse Kevin M.Paperback The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal eraWe're…
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kruse Kevin M.Paperback
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal eraWe're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. 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. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M.
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. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent.