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By Mark J. Rozell, Gleaves Whitney

ISBN-10: 0230604153

ISBN-13: 9780230604155

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This quantity opens a brand new road towards knowing the politics and regulations of many U.S. presidents. For years, top students have mostly overlooked the spiritual think about their reports of presidents. but, because the essays during this e-book exhibit, faith has had a big effect on many severe presidencies in U.S. background. opposite to the normal knowledge, those essays display the deeply non secular part to such presidents as Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, between others.

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Washington (Wiscasset, ME, 1800), 11; John Carroll, A Discourse on George Washington (Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1800), 4–5; Thaddeus Mason Harris, A Discourse . . after . . the Death of Washington (Charlestown, MA: Samuel Etheridge, 1800), 13. Francis Asbury, Letters and Journals, Elmer T. , 3 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958), January 4, 1800, 221; Carroll, A Discourse, 5, see also 6, 15, 21, and 24. The Faith of George Washington 25 18. See Mason L. Weems, The Life of George Washington, ed.

J. B. , 1895); Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia; Caroline M. Kirkland, Memoirs of Washington (New York: D. , 1857); The Presbyterian Magazine, February 1851; and George Washington Parke Custis, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington . . , ed. Benson J. Lossing (New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860). 32. Conrad, “Washington: Christianity and the Moulding Power of His Character,” 99, 100–104, 106, 112, first two quotations from 99, last three from 112. 33. Herbert Hoover, “Message on Luther Day, Aug.

60. Holmes, The Religion of the Founding Fathers, 79. 61. , 79–80; Longmore, The Invention of George Washington, 130–131, 138; and John C. , 1933), 130. He attended much more regularly during the Stamp Act controversy of 1765 and in 1774 when American relations with Britain were very strained. 62. , The Writings of George Washington, 12: 406; William White to The Faith of George Washington 63. 64. 65. 66. 31 B. C. C. Parker, November 28, 1832, in Bird Wilson, Memoir of Life of the Right Reverend William White, 189.

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