God's Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War Format:Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780007438518

ISBN-13: 9780007438518

and structured illumination

ISBN-10: 0060585323

Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels

God's Businessmen: Entrepreneurial Evangelicals in Depression and War Format:Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780007438518The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessmen at the time were quite active in opposing the New Deal on both theological and economic grounds and in doing so claimed a place alongside other conservatives in the public sphere.