In Faith and the Presidency, Gary Scott Smith offered
comprehensive, even-handed examinations of the role of religion in
the lives, politics, and policies of eleven US presidents. In this
book he takes on eleven more chief executives, drawing on a wide
range of sources, and paying close attention to historical context
and America's shifting social and moral values. Smith scrutinizes
the convictions, use of religious rhetoric, and character of these
eleven presidents by examining their lives, beliefs, policies,
elections, and relationships of some of the nation's more colorful,
charismatic, and complex leaders: John Adams, James Madison, John
Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William McKinley, Herbert Hoover,
Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and
Barack Obama. Religious commitments, Smith shows, strongly affected
policy, from John Quincy Adams' treatment of native Americans and
diplomacy, to William McKinley's decision to declare war against
Spain in 1898 and take control of the Philippines, to Herbert
Hoover's quest to reform prisons and defend civil liberties, to
Harry Truman's approach to the Cold War and decision to recognize
Israel, to Bill Clinton's promotion of religious liberty and reform
of welfare, to Barack Obama's policies on poverty and gay rights.
This volume will offer an invaluable resource for anyone interested
in the presidency and the role of religion in politics.
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