Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith

by Andrew P. Hogue

For more than three decades, American presidential candidates have desperately sought the conservative Evangelical vote. With an ever broadening base of support, the Evangelical movement in America may now seem to many a very powerful lobbyist on Capitol Hill. As Andrew Hogue shows, however, this was not always the case.

In Stumping God Hogue deconstructs the 1980 presidential election, in which Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160258429X
• ISBN13: 9781602584297
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"