One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

From a New York Times-bestselling author, the provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era

“Fascinating.” —Washington Post

We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been, a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.

To fight the “slavery” of FDR’s New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activi...