God in the White House
A History: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
2008
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Randall Balmer, one of America’s top historians, explores the role of personal piety and public displays of faith in each of the modern presidencies—from J.F.K to George W. Bush—and shows how these change according to the times and what they reveal about the man sitting in the Oval Office.
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Randall Balmer
Author · 15 books
Randall Herbert Balmer, Ph.D. (Princeton University, 1985), is an ordained Episcopal Priest and historian of American religion, and holds the John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College. He also has taught at Barnard College; Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, Drew, Emory, Yale and Northwestern universities; and at Union Theological Seminary. Balmer was nominated for an Emmy Award for the PBS documentary "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," based on his book of the same title.
