One Nation Underneath God: How Company America Invented Christian America

We’re usually instructed that the US is, was, and all the time has been a Christian nation. However in
One Nation Underneath God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the assumption that America is essentially and formally Christian originated within the Thirties.

To battle the “slavery” of FDR’s New Deal, businessmen enlisted non secular activists in a marketing campaign for “freedom beneath God” that culminated within the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The brand new president revolutionized the function of faith in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions just like the Nationwide Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase “beneath God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Belief” the nation’s first official motto. Church membership quickly soared to an all-time excessive of 69 %. Individuals throughout the non secular and political spectrum agreed that their nation was “one nation beneath God.”

Provocative and authoritative,
One Nation Underneath God reveals how an unholy alliance of cash, faith, and politics created a false origin story that continues to outline and divide American politics to this present day.