Piety and Politics in America
In The American Prospect, Susan Jacoby reviews Kevin M. Kruse’s One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America and Amy Kittelstrom’s The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition, asking, “How, when, and why did it become controversial for politicians to pay even passing homage to the noble truth that the Founders had the temerity, at a time when nearly all Americans were Christian, to establish a national government whose founding legal document is entirely secular?”