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The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of
the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known,
however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution,
going all the way back to the Depression and World War II.
Evangelical businessman at the time were quite active in opposing
the New Deal on both theological and economic grounds and in doing
so claimed a place alongside other conservatives in the public
sphere. Like previous generations of devout laymen, they
self-consciously merged their religious and business lives,
financing and organizing evangelical causes with the kind of
visionary pragmatism that they practiced in the boardroom. In God's
Businessmen, Sarah Ruth Hammond explores not only these men's
personal trajectories but also those of the service clubs and other
institutions that, like them, believed that businessmen were God's
instrument for the Christianization of the world. Hammond presents
a capacious portrait of the relationship between the evangelical
business community and the New Deal and in doing so makes important
contributions to American religious history, business history, and
the history of the American state.
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