{"product_id":"stumping-god-andrew-p-hogue-9781602584297","title":"Stumping God: Reagan, Carter, and the Invention of a Political Faith","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than three decades, American presidential candidates have desperately sought the conservative Evangelical vote. With an ever broadening base of support, the Evangelical movement in America may now seem to many a very powerful lobbyist on Capitol Hill. As Andrew Hogue shows, however, this was not always the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStumping God\u003c\/i\u003e Hogue deconstructs the 1980 presidential election, in which Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter and John B. Anderson, and uncovers a disproportionately heavy reliance on religious rhetoric--a rhetoric that would be the catalyst for a new era of presidential politics. Until 1980, the idea that conservative politics was somehow connected with conservative theology was distant from the American imagination. Hogue describes the varying streams of influence that finally converged by the Reagan-Carter election, including the rapidly rising Religious Right. By 1980, candidates were not only challenged to appeal rhetorically to a conservative religious base, but found it necessary to make public their once-private religious commitments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn compelling and illuminating fashion, \u003ci\u003eStumping God\u003c\/i\u003e explains the roots of modern religious politics and encourages readers to move beyond the haze of rhetorical appeals that--for better or worse--continually clouds the political process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew P. Hogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 160258429X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781602584297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2013","brand":"Andrew P. Hogue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938630435071,"sku":"9781602584297","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_05b0f2e6-ba6a-409c-b6b7-c08640577437.jpg?v=1681436821","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stumping-god-andrew-p-hogue-9781602584297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}