The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America

A timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, this superb volume examines the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years-from the 1932 election of Franklin Roosevelt through the 2008 presidential race. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred ...