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A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country's course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans'new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans'role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln's use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt's strategy to bring the United States into World War II. Fro

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Author

ALFRED A.KNOPF

Publisher

Anchor

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299061774

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Language Learning

Rating

4 / 5 (75 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14