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Conventional wisdom supports that America is a Christian nation because the Founding Fathers. However in One Country Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea of "Christian America" is nothing more than a myth - and a relatively recent one at that. The assumption that America was, is, and always is a Christian nation goes back no more than the 1930s, whenever a coalition of businessmen and religious market leaders united towards FDR's New Offer. With the entire support of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists - the forerunners of the Faith based Right - propelled faith into the open public sphere. Church account skyrocketed; Congress added the saying "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's public motto. For the very first time, America became a carefully religious nation. Provocative and authoritative, One Country Under God reveals the way the comingling of money, faith, and politics created a fake origin story that continues to define and split American politics today.
