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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises--Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s--had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"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...
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