One nation under God
by Kevin Michael Kruse, Kevin M. Kruse · first published 2015
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"We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious activists in their fight against FDR's New Deal. Corporations from General Motors to Hilton Hotels bankrolled conservative clergymen, encouraging them to attack the New Deal as a program of 'pagan statism' t
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…and documentary What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansa... Additionally, Kevin Kruse of Princeton has written a great book called One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. An intro article on this book can be found here: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-am...
on “The Real Class War” ↗There was a good book[0] about where that came from. Big business and religious leaders joined forced to fight the New Deal. [0] One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Kevin M. Kruse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22928900-one-nation-unde...
on “FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance” ↗…lags behind their parents or grandparents at the same age. Kevin Kruse wrote a book about this a while back which is good for understanding some trends in the 20th century: http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
on “On the Experience of Being Poor-Ish, for People Who Aren't” ↗From the book description: > We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. What a bizarre claim. Even the most cursory glance at historical documents…
on “How religion shaped modern economics” ↗As always, the argument is subtler than the blurb on the back side. A reviewer summarized it as follows: > In One Nation Under God, Kruse argues that the idea of the United States as a Christian nation does not find its origins with the founding of the United States or the writing of the Constitution. Rather, the notion of America…
on “How religion shaped modern economics” ↗The book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America has it the other way around. https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate/dp/046...
on “How religion shaped modern economics” ↗…media, organizations, even religious denominations starting with backlash to the New Deal. The historian Kevin Kruse wrote a book which will have a lot of familiar names: http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
on “Meta Was Scraping Sites for Years While Fighting the Practice” ↗…individuals usually affiliated with large companies. It’s a farce that benefits corporations and their owners and lends them political support for their economic actions that does not logically follow. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (Basic Books, 2015) http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-am... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_M._Kruse
on “U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal government surveillance requests” ↗…deserved it in some way. Kevin Kruse wrote a book about that a few years ago and anyone familiar with American politics or religion will recognize a lot of the people involved: http://kevinmkruse.com/book/one-nation-under-god/
on “Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after mass layoffs” ↗