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"""[A] nuanced account. . . . [Christianity’s American Fate] offers a path to greater understanding of how a transformation occurring in full view over decades escaped the notice of many who watched in bafflement and horror as the events of January 6 unfolded. Rather than another January 6, the greater threat that Christian nationalism poses to American society may be, as [the book] warn[s] us, its normalization.""---Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books ""Christianity’s American Fate is at once accessible and erudite, weighing in at a lean 199 pages and yet packing a formidable analytical punch. Hollinger touches on a wide range of issues. . . . [A]nyone who cares about the past, present, and future of American Christianity will be challenged by this book, which like the entirety of Hollinger’s corpus is provocative in the best of ways.""---Heath W. Carter, Christianity Today ""This is superlative religious history."" * Publishers Weekly, starred review * ""A superbly concise examination of how American Christianity’s division into a Protestant two-party system parallel to the existing political one came to deeply alter the nation’s recent politics. . . . A critically important, authoritative history of great, immediate relevance. "" * Kirkus, starred review * ""Brilliant and compulsively readable.""---Andrew Preston, Annales ""Does Christianity have a future in the United States? David Hollinger poses this question in his important new book. Few people are more qualified to answer it than Hollinger, who over the course of five decades has established himself as one of America’s foremost intellectual historians.""---William J. Schultz, Christian Century ""Written for a general audience, the volume accomplishes the rare feat of a scholar translating deep expertise into accessible arguments that challenge easy consensus.""---Beau Underwood, Word & Way ""The delight of Hollinger’s book is. . . the vigor, sparkle, and take-no-prisoners prose style. Christianity’s American Fate is a short but scintillating book.""---Paul Harvey, Reviews in American History ""A fresh analysis of the growing divide between American evangelicalism and secularism. . . . Americans are at a crossroads right now. Time will tell which path will be taken. Hollinger’s book is a helpful map showing how we reached this point in the journey.""---Michelle Arnold, U.S. Catholic ""Thoroughly provocative.""---Joel Wentz, Englewood Review of Books ""Yet despite its brevity, Christianity’s American Fate is far more than a cursory survey; each of its assertions rests on decades of Hollinger’s research and mature analysis, and the book therefore offers a remarkably insightful treatment of modern American religious and political trends.""---Daniel K. Williams, Journal of Church and State ""Genuinely fascinating.""---Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement ""Hollinger’s narrative is eminently engaging, and his tone is refreshingly candid. . . . Hollinger has given us an admirably accessible, informative history of ‘the other Protestants,’ who played a crucial role in shaping American religion and politics over the past one hundred years.""---William Stell, Journal of Religion"

"""[A] nuanced account. . . . [Christianity’s American Fate] offers a path to greater understanding of how a transformation occurring in full view over decades escaped the notice of many who watched in bafflement and horror as the events of January 6 unfolded. Rather than another January 6, the greater threat that Christian nationalism poses to American society may be, as [the book] warn[s] us, its normalization.""---Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books ""Christianity’s American Fate is at once accessible and erudite, weighing in at a lean 199 pages and yet packing a formidable analytical punch. Hollinger touches on a wide range of issues. . . . [A]nyone who cares about the past, present, and future of American Christianity will be challenged by this book, which like the entirety of Hollinger’s corpus is provocative in the best of ways.""---Heath W. Carter, Christianity Today ""This is superlative religious history."" * Publishers Weekly, starred review * ""A superbly concise examination of how American Christianity’s division into a Protestant two-party system parallel to the existing political one came to deeply alter the nation’s recent politics. . . . A critically important, authoritative history of great, immediate relevance. "" * Kirkus, starred review * ""Brilliant and compulsively readable.""---Andrew Preston, Annales ""Does Christianity have a future in the United States? David Hollinger poses this question in his important new book. Few people are more qualified to answer it than Hollinger, who over the course of five decades has established himself as one of America’s foremost intellectual historians.""---William J. Schultz, Christian Century ""Written for a general audience, the volume accomplishes the rare feat of a scholar translating deep expertise into accessible arguments that challenge easy consensus.""---Beau Underwood, Word & Way ""The delight of Hollinger’s book is. . . the vigor, sparkle, and take-no-prisoners prose style. Christianity’s American Fate is a short but scintillating book.""---Paul Harvey, Reviews in American History ""A fresh analysis of the growing divide between American evangelicalism and secularism. . . . Americans are at a crossroads right now. Time will tell which path will be taken. Hollinger’s book is a helpful map showing how we reached this point in the journey.""---Michelle Arnold, U.S. Catholic ""Thoroughly provocative.""---Joel Wentz, Englewood Review of Books ""Yet despite its brevity, Christianity’s American Fate is far more than a cursory survey; each of its assertions rests on decades of Hollinger’s research and mature analysis, and the book therefore offers a remarkably insightful treatment of modern American religious and political trends.""---Daniel K. Williams, Journal of Church and State ""Genuinely fascinating.""---Madoc Cairns, Times Literary Supplement"

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David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America and After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern AmericanHistory (both Princeton).

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