The Evangelicals av Frances FitzGerald

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<b>* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award </b><BR><b>* National Book Award Finalist<BR> * <i>Time</i> magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year<BR> * <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book<BR> * <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Books of 2017</b><BR><BR><b>This ';epic history' (<i>The Boston Globe</i>) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in Americafrom the Puritan era to the 2016 election. ';We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it' (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>).</b><BR><BR>The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.<BR><BR> During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, fi