A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. By John F. Woolverton with James D. Bratt. Library of Religious Biography Series. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2019. xvii + 291 pp. $32.00 hardcover.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720000566
Abstract: forces John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower, into being a spiritual descendent of Jonathan Edwards, when in fact the diplomat had no ties with evangelicalism but was a liberal Protestant. Such… read more here.
Keywords: religious biography; biography; foreign policy; american foreign ... See more keywords
POWER AND PLURALISM: AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244319000106
Abstract: The study of US foreign relations (what is now often called “America and the World”) has been in a protracted “religious turn” for at least a decade. One of the most prominent statements of the… read more here.
Keywords: power pluralism; american protestantism; foreign relations; pluralism american ... See more keywords
Wilsonianism and the sweep of American foreign policy history
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DOI: 10.1080/14794012.2018.1521894
Abstract: The contention of this essay is that Wilsonianism has rested in part on a conviction that popular government, government responsible to the people, is right and that it is also advantageous to the United States… read more here.
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