In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a
precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to
astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture
also threatened to erode the country s traditional moral character.
As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in "The
Twilight of the American Enlightenment," postwar Americans looked
to the country s secular liberal elites for guidance in this
precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to
articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its
course. Their failure lost them the faith of their constituents,
paving the way for a Christian revival that offered America a firm
new moral vision one rooted in the Protestant values of the
founders.
A groundbreaking reappraisal of the country s spiritual
reawakening, "The Twilight of the American Enlightenment" shows how
America found new purpose at the dawn of the Cold War.
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