Faith and the presidency: from George Washington to George W. Bush
Gary Scott Smith
Faith and the presidency: from George Washington to George W. Bush
Author
Gary Scott SmithPublisher
Oxford University PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Faith and the presidency: from George Washington to George W. Bush / Gary Scott SmithPublication Details
آکسفورد : Oxford University Press، 2006مPhysical Description
x, 665 p.; 24 cm.Subject
Presidents - United States BiographyPresidents - United States Religion
Christianity and politics - United States
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. 134-436( and index.
Contents
George Washington and providential agency -- Thomas Jefferson and the separation of church and state -- Abraham Lincoln : saving the last best hope of earth -- Theodore Roosevelt and the bully pulpit -- Woodrow Wilson : Presbyterian statesman -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the quest to achieve an abundant life -- Dwight David Eisenhower, dynamic conservatism, and the religious revival of the 1950s -- John F. Kennedy : the first Catholic president -- Jimmy Carter : first servant of the nation -- Ronald Reagan : making America God's shining city on a hill -- George W. Bush : a faith-based presidency