God and the American Empire (TRIH ep 153)
1947 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Professor Andrew Preston to discuss the role of religion in American history and foreign policy across the 20th and early 21st centuries. Preston traces persistent religiosity in the United States to institutional features like separation of church and state and a competitive 'marketplace of faith,' and shows how that religiosity shaped American exceptionalism. He connects Franklin D. Roosevelt's invocation of a Judeo-Christian heritage in the run-up to...
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