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==Book reviews Kevin M. Kruse== '''Kruse, Kevin. 2016. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Basic Books.Kruse, Kevin M. 2005. “The Politics of Race and Public Space: Desegregation, Privatization, and the Tax Revolt in Atlanta.” Journal of Urban History 31 (5): 610–33. doi:10.1177/0096144205275732.———. 2013. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton University Press.''' @book{kruse_one_2016, title = {One {Nation} {Under} {God}: {How} {Corporate} {America} {Invented} {Christian} {America}}, isbn = {978-0-465-09741-8}, shorttitle = {One {Nation} {Under} {God}}, abstract = {We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Krusereveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.To fight the “slavery” of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for “freedom under God” that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Trust” the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was “one nation under God.”Provocative and authoritative, One Nation under Under Godreveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Basic Books}, author = {Kruse, Kevin}, month = may, year = {2016}, note = {Google-Books-ID: rQbTDQAAQBAJ}, keywords = {History / United States / 20th Century, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism, Religion / Religion, Politics \& State}} @article{kruse_politics_2005, title = {The {Politics} of {Race} and {Public} {Space}: {Desegregation}, {Privatization}, and the {Tax} {Revolt} in {Atlanta}}, volume = {31}, issn = {0096-1442}, shorttitle = {The {Politics} of {Race} and {Public} {Space}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144205275732 }, doi = {10.1177/0096144205275732}, abstract = {Focusing on the city of Atlanta in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this article examines the ways in which the desegregation of public spaces, such as golf courses, buses, and parks, helped crystallize two central elements of suburban conservatism—privatization and the “tax revolt.” As such spaces desegregated, white Atlantans fled from them and created private alternatives instead. As they did, they also fought to take their finances with them, staging an early, though often overlooked, tax revolt, rebelling against the use of their taxes to support municipal spaces and services they no longer used. As this article demonstrates, white flight was not merely a physical retreat of whites from the city to the suburbs. Their withdrawal first unfolded in a less literal sense, as they withdrew their support—political, social, and financial—from a city and a society that they believed had already abandoned them.}, language = {en}, number = {5}, urldate = {2017-07-31}, journal = {Journal of Urban History}, author = {Kruse, Kevin M.}, month = jul, year = {2005}, pages = {610--633}, file = {SAGE PDF Full Text:files/200/Kruse - 2005 - The Politics of Race and Public Space Desegregati.pdf:application/pdf}} @book{kruse_white_2013, title = {White {Flight}: {Atlanta} and the {Making} of {Modern} {Conservatism}}, isbn = {978-1-4008-4897-3}, shorttitle = {White {Flight}}, abstract = {During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, author = {Kruse, Kevin M.}, month = jul, year = {2013}, note = {Google-Books-ID: 1aQoXxnENigC}, keywords = {History / Modern / 20th Century, History / United States / 20th Century, History / United States / State \& Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism \& Liberalism, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Sociology / Urban}, file = {Kevin M. Kruse Intro.pdf:files/198/Kevin M. Kruse Intro.pdf:application/pdf}} '''Lassiter, Matthew D., and Kevin M. Kruse. 2009. “The Bulldozer Revolution: Suburbs and Southern History since World War II.” The Journal of Southern History 75 (3): 691–706.''' @article{lassiter_bulldozer_2009, title ={The {Bulldozer} {Revolution}: {Suburbs} and {Southern} {History} since {World} {War} {II}}, volume ={75}, issn = {0022-4642}, shorttitle = {The {Bulldozer} {Revolution}}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/27779033 }, number = {3}, urldate = {2017-07-31}, journal = {The Journal of Southern History}, author = {Lassiter, Matthew D. and Kruse, Kevin M.}, year = {2009}, pages = {691--706}} ''Book reviews of One Nation Under God''
'''Ferré, John P. 2016. “One Nation under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.” Journalism History 41 (4): 233.'''
