American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
By Jon Meacham
Random House, 2006. 399 pgs. Nonfiction

American Gospel seeks to illuminate the relationship between religion and politics in American history through solid information, inspiring quotations, and interesting anecdotes.  Beginning with the religious views of the founding fathers and their desires to balance public religion with government, this book actual continues beyond the founding exploring related events during the civil war, the reconstruction period, the great depression,  WWII and the cold war, the civil rights movement, and continuing up through the Reagan administration.


Very interesting and informative, I listened to this book on CD and found it interesting later to peruse the actual book and visit the several illustrations which are scattered throughout the text.


SML