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Author Smith, Gary Scott, 1950-

Title Faith and the presidency : from George Washington to George W. Bush / Gary Scott Smith.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  E176.1 .S648 2006    Available  ---
Description x, 665 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-634) and index.
Contents George Washington and providential agency -- Thomas Jefferson and the separation of church and state -- Abraham Lincoln : saving the last best hope of earth -- Theodore Roosevelt and the bully pulpit -- Woodrow Wilson : Presbyterian statesman -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the quest to achieve an abundant life -- Dwight David Eisenhower, dynamic conservatism, and the religious revival of the 1950s -- John F. Kennedy : the first Catholic president -- Jimmy Carter : first servant of the nation -- Ronald Reagan : making America God's shining city on a hill -- George W. Bush : a faith-based presidency.
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Religion.
Religion.
Christianity and politics -- United States.
Christianity and politics.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0195300602 cloth alkaline paper
9780195300604 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780195300604