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Evil Deeds in High Places - Christian America's Moral Struggle with Watergate (Hardcover)
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Evil Deeds in High Places - Christian America's Moral Struggle with Watergate (Hardcover)
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Highlights Watergate as a critical turning point in Christian
engagement in US politics The Watergate scandal was one of the most
infamous events in American democratic history. Faith in the
government plummeted, leaving the nation feeling betrayed and
unsure who could be trusted anymore. In Evil Deeds in High Places,
David E. Settje examines how Christian institutions reacted to this
moral and ethical collapse, and the ways in which they chose to
assert their moral authority. Settje argues that Watergate was a
turning point for spurring Christian engagement with politics.
While American Christians had certainly already been active in the
public sphere, these events motivated a more urgent engagement in
response, and served to pave the way for conservatives to push more
fully into political power. Historians have carefully analyzed the
judicial, media, congressional, and presidential actions
surrounding Watergate, but there has been very little consideration
of popular reactions of Americans across the political spectrum.
Though this book does not aspire to offer a comprehensive picture
of America's citizenry, by examining the variety of Protestant
Christian experiences-those more conservative, those more liberal,
and those in between-and by incorporating analyses of both white
and black Christian reactions, it captures a significant swath of
the American population at the time, providing one of the only
studies to examine how everyday Americans viewed the events of
Watergate. Grasping the dynamics of Christian responses to
Watergate enables us to comprehend more completely that volatile
moment in US history, and provides important context to make sense
of reactions to our more recent political turmoil.
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