The Evangelicals

"[A] capacious history of Evangelical American Protestantism....A complex and fascinating epic." —Booklist (starred review)
"FitzGerald's brilliant book could not have been more timely, more well-researched, more well-written, or more necessary." —The American Scholar
This groundbreaking book from Pulitzer Prize­–winning historian Frances FitzGerald is the first to tell the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America—from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election.
The evangelical movement began in the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, known in America as the Great Awakenings. A populist rebellion against the established churches, it became the dominant religious force in the country.
During the nineteenth century white evangelicals split apart dramatically, first North versus South, and then at the end of the century, modernist versus fundamentalist....