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    American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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    American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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    American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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    American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

    Written by Jon Meacham

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

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    About this audiobook

    In American Gospel (literally meaning the "good news about America"), New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life. As Meacham shows, faith --meaning a belief in a higher power, and the sense that we are God's chosen people-- has always been at the heart of our national experience, from Jamestown to the Constitutional Convention to the Civil Rights Movement to September 11th. And yet, first and foremost, America is a nation founded upon the principles of liberty and freedom. Every American is free to exercise his own faith or no faith at all. And so a balance is struck, between public religion and private religion; and religious belief is distinct from morality. As Meacham explains, the well-known "wall" between church and state has always separated private religion from the business of the state, yet religious belief is part of the basic foundation of government. Brilliantly articulating an argument that links the Founding Fathers to an insightful contemporary point of view, American Gospel renews our understanding of history, and what public religion has meant in America, so that we can move beyond today's religious and political extremism toward a truer understanding of the place of faith in American society.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2006
    ISBN9780739334386
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    American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
    Author

    Jon Meacham

    JON MEACHAM received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George H.W. Bush, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. Meacham, who teaches at Vanderbilt University, is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. He lives in Nashville with his wife and children.

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      An excellent overview of the role of religion, for better or worse, in the American experience. The emphasis is on the positive role that public, as opposed to narrow, sectarian religion can play in American life.

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