God's Own Party

ISBN-13: 9780195340846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013

Daniel Williams

Opis

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shocked. But, as God's Own Party demonstrates, they shouldn't have been. The Christian Right goes back much farther than most journalists, political scientists, and historians realize. Relying on extensive archival and primary source research, Daniel K. Williams presents the first comprehensive history of the Christian Right, uncovering how evangelicals came to see the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could reclaim America as a Christian nation. A fascinating and much-needed account of a key force in American politics, God's Own Party is the only full-scale analysis of the electoral shifts, cultural changes, and political activists at the movement's core--showing how the Christian Right redefined politics as we know it.

Recenzje

This book is a needed addition to scholarship on the rise of the New Right.

O autorze

Daniel K. Williams is Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, where he teaches courses on the history of American religion and politics.