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Pulitzer Prize?winning historian Walter A. McDougall argues
powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that “God is on our
side” has inspired U.S. foreign policy ever since 1776. The first comprehensive
study of the role played by civil religion in U.S. foreign relations over the
entire course of the country’s history, McDougall’s book explores the deeply
infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular
republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred
years. From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe
Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign
against “godless Communism,” this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged
but freely exercised dogmas of civil religion that bind together a “God blessed”
America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global
destiny.
