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# The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Hardcover – 8 Mar 2018

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        			* FINALIST *  * NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS * * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD * * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE * * J. ANTHONY LUKAS BOOK PRIZE *&#x201C;A page turner: FitzGerald is a great writer capable of keeping a sprawling narrative on point . . . Anyone curious about the state of conservative American Protestantism will have a trusted guide in this Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize winner&#xA0;. . . We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it.&#x201D;&#xA0; (The New York Times Book Review)&#x201C;A well-written, thought-provoking and deeply researched history that is impressive for its scope and level of detail.&#x201D; (The Wall Street Journal)&#x201C;The waves of conservative&#xA0;Protestant&#xA0;influence that have swept American life at various points in history have often seemed to come out of nowhere. The emergence of the&#xA0;Christian&#xA0;right&apos;s political influence in the 1970s, for example, just as experts said&#xA0;religion&#xA0;was losing its place in U.S. culture, was shocking. But in her new major work on the subject,&#xA0;The Evangelicals, historian Frances FitzGerald shows how the origins of these booms are discernible from afar. Her book makes the case so well, it leaves readers with the feeling that we should all be paying closer attention.&#x201D; (TIME)&#x201C;An epic history of white American evangelical Protestantism from Plymouth Rock to Trump Tower . . . Fitzgerald, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for &#x201C;Fire in the Lake,&#x2019;&#x2019; an account of the Vietnam War, gracefully swoops over the decades of populist evangelicalism with Barbara Tuchman-like grace. This is a comprehensive, heavily footnoted, yet readable study of how the evangelical tradition has become seared into the fabric of American life and the key figures who made it happen.&#xA0;. . . Fitzgerald, always judicious and unbiased, nobly succeeds in analyzing the nuanced differences between evangelicalism and fundamentalism, Calvinism and postmillennialism, charismatics and Pentecostals.&#x201D; (The Boston Globe)&#x201C;[A] capacious history of Evangelical American Protestantism. This rich narrative ranges across the various Evangelical denominations while illuminating the doctrines&#x2014;especially personal conversion as spiritual rebirth, and adherence to the Bible as ultimate truth&#x2014;that unite them. . . . A complex and fascinating epic.&#x201D;&#xA0; (Booklist, starred review)&#x201C;FitzGerald&#x2019;s brilliant book could not have been more timely, more well-researched, more well-written, or more necessary.&#x201D; (The American Scholar)&#x201C;Frances FitzGerald answers the recurrent question, &#x201C;Where did these people [mainly right-wing zeal&#xAD;ots] come from?&#x201D; She says there is no mystery involved. They were always here. We were just not looking at them. What repeatedly makes us look again is what she is here to tell us.&#x201D;&#xA0; (The New York Review of Books)&#x201C;An excellent work that is certain to be a standard text for understanding contemporary evangelicalism and the American impulse to reform its society.&#x201D; (Library Journal)&quot;Timely and enlightening&quot; (The Economist)
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
        		About the Author
        	
        	
        		
        			Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America; Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam; America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century; Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures; Way Out in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper&#x2019;s, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Highly recommended.
            
*by K***E on 24 May 2017*

It is taking a while to get through this, but it has been an eye opener. Highly recommended.
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A well-written scholarly account of evangelical Christianity
            
*by R***E on 21 September 2017*

A well-written and thoroughly researched book that follows the historical development of evangelical Christianity in the US up to the beginning of the Trump presidency in 700 fact-filled pages. Highly recommended!
  

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Magisterial.
            
*by M***N on 19 April 2018*

This book is by turns surprising, well researched and interesting.  I thought they were a monolith but they're not and rarely were;  neither are they synonymous with Fundamentalists though they have overlapped for periods.  I long since found, in studying the populist movement of the 1890s, that there was more to Williams Jennings Bryan than being the patsy in the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial, but I had reckoned without them as a force opposed to the American neoliberal Right, as they became under George W. Bush where their stance become more egalitarian and they demanded better care for the indigent, the sick and the benighted.  They have been at odds with the right at other times too. In fact there has always been more to them than I supposed, easy to miss for a Briton unaware of 'The Great Awakening', unaware of the influence of divines like Jonathan Edwardes thus I found it instructive to follow these Christians' influence in America. In this ostensibly unreligious country,  religiosity far exceeds the easy  unbelief of my own United Kingdom, where the Church may be Established but it is tolerated rather than enthusiastically followed.  Knowing how this exacting, expansionist and fervent version of the faith has for so long had different priorities, indeed different affinities between it and the state makes the always reliable FitzGerald an excellent guide, as she neither exults in the piety nor patronises Evangelicals, a tonic in our post-truth world .  As ever she is readable , much of its learning was erm, a revelation too.  Extremely enlightening on one of the more likeable responses to the Enlightenment.. I believe I now know  America the better for reading this fine book.  I lived there for two years in my youth and was not aware of how much I missed.  Highly recommended.
  

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