God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books of one of the most influential editors of the day-a search, born of two world wars, for resolution of our divided identity as a Christian nation and a nation of religions.

One summer evening in 1916 in Blanchester, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old farm boy was riding his horse past the town cemetery. T...