Description A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America\'s rise to global power and shaped today\'s political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history.
As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation\'s special blessing and its peculiar.
Description A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America\'s rise to global power and shaped today\'s political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history
