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The Spiritual-Industrial Complex - America's Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War (Hardcover)
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The Spiritual-Industrial Complex - America's Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War (Hardcover)
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In his farewell address, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation of
the perils of the military-industrial complex. But as Jonathan
Herzog shows in this insightful history, Eisenhower had spent his
presidency contributing to another, lesser known, Cold War
collaboration: the spiritual-industrial complex.
This fascinating volume shows that American leaders in the early
Cold War years considered the conflict to be profoundly religious;
they saw Communism not only as godless but also as a sinister form
of religion. Fighting faith with faith, they deliberately used
religious beliefs and institutions as part of the plan to defeat
the Soviet enemy. Herzog offers an illuminating account of the
resultant spiritual-industrial complex, chronicling the rhetoric,
the programs, and the policies that became its hallmarks. He shows
that well-known actions like the addition of the words "under God"
to the Pledge of Allegiance were a small part of a much larger and
relatively unexplored program that promoted religion nationwide.
Herzog shows how these efforts played out in areas of American life
both predictable and unexpected--from pulpits and presidential
appeals to national faith drives, military training barracks,
public school classrooms, and Hollywood epics. Millions of
Americans were bombarded with the message that the religious could
not be Communists, just a short step from the all-too-common
conclusion that the irreligious could not be true Americans.
Though the spiritual-industrial complex declined in the 1960s, its
statutes, monuments, and sentiments live on as bulwarks against
secularism and as reminders that the nation rests upon the
groundwork of religious faith. They continue to serve as valuable
allies for those defending the place of religion in American life.
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