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The year 2020is a hugely significant one for the United States of America, marking as itdoes the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims tothe New World and their establishment of a 'godly' colony in (what was forthem) the 'American wilderness'. But it is also the year of the nextPresidential election, one where the current occupant is expected to stand forre-election. Many millionsof Americans will not see this as a random juxtaposition of events, since forthem the unlikely person of Donald Trump is the one chosen by God to implementa twenty-first-century programme of godly rule and the restoration of Americanspiritual exceptionalism that is directly rooted in those far-off times whenPuritan settlers (who followed in 1630) first established a semi-theocratic'New Jerusalem' in the 'New World'. The USA is the home of more Christians than any other nation on earth.In 2014 research revealed that 70.6 per cent of Americans identified asChristians of some form with 25.4% identifying as'Evangelicals'. Eighty-one per cent of them, around 33.7 million people,voted Trump in 2016. How can it be thatself-described Christians of the 'Evangelical Religious Right' see, of allpeople, Donald Trump as their political representative and thus defender oftheir cause?

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James Roberts and Martyn Whittock have produced a timely, stimulating and sometimes provocative analysis of perhaps the most important and certainly the least understood section of Donald Trump's base. - Donald Macintyre, Journalist This is an essential handbook for 2020, the anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the year Trump bids for re-election. Consistently overlooked and belittled by political commentators, his considerable power base of evangelical Americans hails Trump as the unlikely instrument appointed by God to revive the shining 'city on a hill' of the early settlers. This is a readable, timely and revelatory insight into a dangerously neglected aspect of America's cultural identity. - Clare Asquith, scholar and author James Roberts and Martyn Whittock in Trump and the Puritans trace the source of Donald Trump's appeal and some of his policies back to the religious convictions of the Puritan pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. Fascinating reading, and essential for an understanding of the influence of today's evangelical Americans on the US President. - Piers Paul Read, historian and novelist This engrossing book offers a unique take on Donald Trump's presidency, tracking America's Puritan legacy from the Mayflower Pilgrims to his White House. In the process its authors explain the significance of Mike Pence, Brett Kavanaugh versus Christine Blasey Ford and Benjamin Netanyahu in the age of the Donald. - Cristina Odone, broadcaster and journalist

James Roberts and Martyn Whittock have produced a timely, stimulating and sometimes provocative analysis of perhaps the most important and certainly the least understood section of Donald Trump's base. - Donald Macintyre, Journalist

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James Roberts has been a foreign news journalist for more than 30 years. He is currently Assistant Editor of the London-based international Catholic weekly, The Tablet, where he has covered Foreign News since 2004. Before joining the Tablet he spent 12 years on the Foreign News desks of the Independent and Independent on Sunday, where he became Foreign Editor. Martyn Whittock is the author of forty-seven books, including When God Was King (Lion Hudson 2018) which explores the lives and beliefs of rebels and radicals of the British Civil Wars and Mayflower generation, both in the British Isles and North America.

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