{"product_id":"the-evangelicals-the-struggle-to-shape-america-9781439131343","title":"The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America","description":"\u003cb\u003e* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e* National Book Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e * \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e * \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003cbr\u003e * \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"epic history\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America--from 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart, first North versus South, and then, modernist versus fundamentalist. After World War II, Billy Graham attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent, but the civil rights movement and the social revolution of the sixties drove them apart again. By the 1980s Jerry Falwell and other southern televangelists, such as Pat Robertson, had formed the Christian right. Protesting abortion and gay rights, they led the South into the Republican Party, and for thirty-five years they were the sole voice of evangelicals to be heard nationally. Eventually a younger generation proposed a broader agenda of issues, such as climate change, gender equality, and immigration reform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent of the American population, but they are no longer monolithic in their politics. They range from Tea Party supporters to social reformers. Still, with the decline of religious faith generally, FitzGerald suggests that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they are to survive. \"A well-written, thought-provoking, and deeply researched history that is impressive for its scope and level of detail\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). Her \"brilliant book could not have been more timely, more well-researched, more well-written, or more necessary\" (\u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFitzgerald, Frances:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam; America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century; Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures; Way Out in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVietnam: Spirits of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Rolling Stone, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEsquire.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649016107282,"sku":"9781439131343","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12ed86d5-b783-49fb-8aa6-106d7b185d5b.jpg?v=1733255299","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-evangelicals-the-struggle-to-shape-america-9781439131343","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}