Randall Balmer: Redeemer, Second Edition

Cover: 9781469680217 | Redeemer, Second Edition | The Life of Jimmy Carter | Randall Balmer

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This illuminating biography of our thirty-ninth president by an acclaimed historian of American religion presents Jimmy Carter as the last great standard-bearer of progressive evangelical politics. Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are commonly viewed today as inseparable. But when Carter, a Democrat and unabashed born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals. Yet four years later, those very same voters abandoned Carter for Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party, signaling the eclipse of Christian progressivism by the Religious Right.

Balmer briskly narrates Carter's religious and political development, his stunning rise from peanut farmer to Georgia governor to president of the United States, his accomplishments and missteps, and his swift fall from political grace. With a keen eye for the dynamic politics of the 1970s and '80s and the inner workings of right-wing religious organizing, Balmer provides a compelling account of an often-misunderstood moment in American political history, full of insight into the character and motivations of the nation's longest-lived president. Now in paperback for the first time, this edition includes a new afterword on the forces that led to Carter's 1980 defeat and the ways his policy priorities and values extended to his long career as a humanitarian and activist after leaving the White House.

Über den Autor

Randall Balmer is a prize-winning historian, a leading public commentator on religion, and the author of more than a dozen books, including Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America. He holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781469680217
ISBN-10:	1469680211
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Balmer, Randall
Auflage:	2nd Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, with a New Afterword by the Author edition
Hersteller:	University of North Carolina Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 154 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Randall Balmer
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,462 kg