Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter

by Randall Balmer

Book Overview

A religious biography of Jimmy Carter, the controversial president whose political rise and fall coincided with the eclipse of Christian progressivism and the emergence of the Religious Right.

Evangelical Christianity and conservative politics are today seen as inseparable. But when Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and a born-again Christian, won the presidency in 1976, he owed his victory in part to American evangelicals, who responded to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465029582
• ISBN13: 9780465029587
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"