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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

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We’re regularly told that the USA is, used to be, and at all times has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that The united states is fundamentally and formally Christian originated within the 1930s.

To fight the “slavery” of FDR’s New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for “freedom under God” that culminated within the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The brand new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Agree with” the country’s first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans around the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country used to be “one nation under God.”

Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to at the moment.
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