RECOMMENDED READING

HISTORY

Ahlstrom, Sydney. A Religious History of the American People. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1972.

Baird, W. David, and Danney Goble. Oklahoma: A History. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 2011.

Davis, David Brion. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 2014.

FitzGerald, Frances. Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. Simon & Schuster: New York, 2017.

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution. Harper Perennial Modern Classics: New York, 2014.

Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Penguin Books: New York, 2016.

LePore, Jill. These Truths. W.W. Norton: New York, 2018.

MacLean, Nancy. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Penguin Books: New York, 2017.

Monter, E. William. Calvin’s Geneva. Wipf & Stock: Eugene, OR, 2012.

Morgan, Edmund. Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1965.

CURRENT EVENTS

Allen, Jonathan, and Amie Parnes. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign. Crown: New York, 2017.

Blumenthal, Max. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party. Nation Books: New York, 2009.

Fang, Lee. The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right. The New Press: New York, 2013.

Frank, Thomas. What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Metropolitan Books: New York, 2004.

Gilgoff, Dan. The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War. St. Martin’s Griffin: New York, 2008.

Mayer, Jane. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Anchor Books: New York, 2017.

Oreskes, Naomi, and Erik M. Conway. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Bloomsbury Publishing: New York, 2011.

Phillips, Kevin. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. Viking Press: New York, 2006.

Sharlat, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Harper Perennial: New York, 2009.

________ C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. Back Bay Books: New York, 2010.

Stewart, Katherine. The Good News Club: The Religious Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children. PublicAffairs: New York, 2012.

MOVEMENT WRITINGS

Arnn, Larry. Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education. Hillsdale College Press: Hillsdale, MI, 2010.

Barna, George. The Day Christians Changed America: How Christian Conservatives Put Trump in the White House and Redirected America’s Future. Metaformation: Ventura, 2017.

Dobson, James. Love Must Be Tough. Word Publishing: Dallas, 1996.

Jeffress, Robert. Twilight’s Last Gleaming: How America’s Last Days Can Be Your Best Days. Worthy Publishing: Brentwood, TN, 2011.

Johnson, Clint. The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again). Regnery Publishing: Washington, D.C., 2006.

LaHaye, Tim, and Craig Parshall. Brink of Chaos. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2012.

Loesch, Dana. Flyover Nation: You Can’t Run a Country You’ve Never Been To. Sentinel Books: New York, 2016.

Nance, Penny. Feisty & Feminine: A Rallying Cry for Conservative Women. Zondervan: Grand Rapids, 2016.

Pressler, Paul. A Hill on Which to Die: One Southern Baptist’s Journey. Broadman & Holman Publishers: Nashville, 2002.

Sekulow, Jay. Undemocratic: Rogue, Reckless and Renegade: How the Government is Stealing Democracy One Agency at a Time. Howard Books: New York, 2014.

Viguerie, Richard. Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It. WND Books: Washington, D.C., 2014.

Wallnau, Lance. God’s Chaos Candidate: Donald J. Trump and the American Unraveling. Killer Sheep Media: Keller, TX, 2016.