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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
by Church, Forrest
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151011850
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011858
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Harcourt. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Stamped on endpage.
Synopsis
Today’s dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a powerful retelling of the birth of the American body politic, religious historian Forrest Church describes our first great culture war—a tumultuous yet nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington’s presidency to James Monroe’s. On one side of the battle, the proponents of order—Federalists, Congregationalists, New Englanders—believed that the only legitimate ruler of men is God. On the other side, the defenders of liberty—republicans, Baptists, Virginians—cheered the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and believed that only the separation of church and state would preserve man’s freedom. Would we be a nation under God, or with liberty for all? In this vigorous history, Forrest Church offers a new vision of our earliest presidents’ beliefs, reshaping assumptions about the debates that still reverberate across our land.
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- Wonder Book
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- SB00Z-02472
- Title
- So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State
- Author
- Church, Forrest
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151011850
- ISBN 13
- 9780151011858
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- September 10, 2007
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