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HISTORY United States 20th Century HISTORY United States 21st Century POLITICAL SCIENCE Civics & Citizenship POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Ideologies Conservatism & Liberalism Religion Social conflict United States United States Historiography United States History Errors, inventions, etc United States Politics and government 1945-1989Filter By Authors
Kruse, Kevin MichaelKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama's presidency, or with the post- 9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or the 'Reagan Revolution' and the rise of the New Right. For leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, it all starts in 1974. In that one year, the nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic KrauseKruse, Kevin Michael
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KRUSummary: "The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Inaccurate interpretations and outright misrepresentations of the past-cultivated within and promoted by the conservative movement and right-wing media over the last several decades-hold sway among large numbers of Americans, damaging our public discourse. In Myth America, historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have assembled an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022