The American Bible-Whose America Is This?: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation

“In The American Bible, Prothero has turned his considerable talents to assembling a version of the American canon. The author's prose is, as usual, spritely, informed and incisive.” – Washington Post

The New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One presents a provocative crash course in the great “American scriptures”—those texts that have both divided and defined our understanding of what it is to be American.

Stephen Prothero gives readers an exciting and use...