A fierce critique of Civil Religion as the taproot of America\'s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A.
His numerous books include the 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winner The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age..
Mc Dougall is professor of history and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of InterNational Relations at the University of Pennsylvania.
About the Author: Walter A.
From the Founding Fathers and the crusade for independence to the Monroe Doctrine, through World Wars I and II and the decades-long Cold War campaign against "godless Communism," this coruscating polemic reveals the unacknowledged but freely exercised dogmas of Civil Religion that bind together a "God blessed" America, sustaining the nation in its pursuit of an ever elusive global destiny. Foreign relations over the entire course of the country\'s history, Mc Dougall\'s book explores the deeply infused religious rhetoric that has sustained and driven an otherwise secular republic through peace, war, and global interventions for more than two hundred years.
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The first comprehensive study of the role played by Civil Religion in U. Foreign policy ever since 1776.
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Mc Dougall argues powerfully that a pervasive but radically changing faith that "God is on our side" has inspired U.
A fierce critique of Civil Religion as the taproot of America\'s bid for global hegemony Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A
