One Nation under God How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Name: One Nation under God How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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ISBN: 9780465097418

ISBN-10: 0465097413

ISBN-13: 9780465097418

Edition: 2016

Authors: Kevin M. Kruse

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We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America” is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that.As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious activists in their fight against FDR’s New Deal. Corporations from General Motors to Hilton Hotels bankrolled conservative clergymen, encouraging them to attack the New Deal as a program of "pagan statism” that perverted the central principle of Christianity: the sanctity and salvation of the individual.…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2016
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/3/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English