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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America [Audiobook]
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America [Audiobook] by Kevin M. Kruse
English | April 14, 2015 | ASIN: B00UIB516Y, ISBN: 1501238205, 1501238213 | M4B@64 kbps | 13 hrs 2 mins | 353 MB
Narrator: Jeff Cummings | Genre: Nonfiction/Politics
English | April 14, 2015 | ASIN: B00UIB516Y, ISBN: 1501238205, 1501238213 | M4B@64 kbps | 13 hrs 2 mins | 353 MB
Narrator: Jeff Cummings | Genre: Nonfiction/Politics
Conventional wisdom holds that America has been a Christian nation since the Founding Fathers. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea of "Christian America" is nothing more than a myth - and a relatively recent one at that.
The assumption that America was, is, and always will be a Christian nation dates back no further than the 1930s, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to FDR's New Deal. With the full support of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists - the forerunners of the Religious Right - propelled religion into the public sphere. Church membership skyrocketed; Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's official motto. For the first time, America became a thoroughly religious nation.
Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how the comingling of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics today.