The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Audiobook (Free)

* Winner of the 2017 National Book Critics Group Award

* National Book Award Finalist

* Time newspaper Top 10 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year

* NY Times Notable Book

* Publishers Regular Greatest Books of 2017

This “epic history” (The Boston Globe) from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald may be the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America—from the Puritan era towards the 2016 election. “We possess long required a fair-minded overview of this about The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has supplied it” (The New York Times Reserve Review).

The evangelical motion began in the revivals from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in the us as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the set up churches, it became the prominent religious pressure in the country.

During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split aside, 1st North versus South, and, modernist versus fundamentalist. After Globe Battle II, Billy Graham attracted enormous crowds and tried to gather all Protestants under his big tent, however the civil privileges movement as well as the interpersonal revolution of the sixties drove them aside again. From the 1980s Jerry Falwell and various other southern televangelists, such as Pat Robertson, acquired produced the Christian best. Protesting abortion and gay privileges, they led the South in to the Republican Party, and for thirty-five years these were the sole voice of evangelicals to become heard nationally. Ultimately a younger era proposed a broader plan of issues, such as for example climate modification, gender equality, and immigration reform.

Evangelicals now constitute twenty-five percent from the American people, but they are no longer monolithic within their politics. They range between Tea Party supporters to sociable reformers. Still, with the decrease of religious trust generally, FitzGerald shows that evangelical churches must embrace ethnic minorities if they’re to survive. “A well-written, thought-provoking, and deeply explored history that is impressive for its scope and degree of details” (The Wall structure Road Journal). Her “amazing book cannot have been even more timely, even more well-researched, even more well-written, or even more necessary” (The American Scholar).