AMERICAN GOSPEL

In this vivid book, New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham tells the story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. Meacham re-creates the fascinating history of a nation grappling with religion and politics—from John Winthrop’s "city on a hill" sermon to the Declaration of Independence, from the Revolution to the Civil War, from a proposed 19th-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for civil rights, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan—he renews readers’ understanding of history and what public religion has meant in America.