Creationism USA is an, informed, helpful, and optimistic analysis of America's culture war over origins. Emphasizing that most Americans share a deep theological commitment that God created the world, the book unpacks the political and cultural dimensions of the evolution controversy. Laats is a gifted writer and this is a valuable contribution to an important conversation too often dominated by superficial shouting.
Adam Laats is a historian interested in culture-war battles over religion and education. He taught middle school and high school for ten years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He currently teaches at Binghamton University (State University of New York). His previous books include Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation, The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American
Education, and Fundamentalism and Education in the Scopes Era: God, Darwin, and the Roots of America's Culture Wars.