God in the White House: a History How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

Name: God in the White House: a History How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
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ISBN: 9780060872588

ISBN-10: 0060872586

ISBN-13: 9780060872588

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Authors: Randall Balmer

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How did we go from John F. Kennedy declaring that religion should play no role in the elections to Bush saying, "I believe that God wants me to be president"?Historian Randall Balmer takes us on a tour of presidential religiosity in the last half of the twentieth century-from Kennedy's 1960 speech that proposed an almost absolute wall between American political and religious life to the soft religiosity of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society; from Richard Nixon's manipulation of religion to fit his own needs to Gerald Ford's quiet stoicism; from Jimmy Carter's introduction of evangelicalism into the mainstream to Ronald Reagan's co-option of the same group; from Bill Clinton's covert way of…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English