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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald

Start date: August 1, 2017

Finish date: November 21, 2017

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Sep 24, 2018 Irene rated it really liked it

This is an extensively researched, detailed survey of the establishment, growth and acquisition of political power of Evangelical Christianity in the United States. Although FitzGerald has synthesized a great amount of information from the historical record, I feel I know less after reading this tome than I did before. Maybe that is a sign of a good study, after all, the more one knows, the more one should realize how little one knows. And, maybe I wanted something from this scholarship which it ...more

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