23 Best nonfiction books like God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel K. Williams

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God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right

By: Daniel K. Williams

3.99

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shoc…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right by Daniel K. Williams , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harry Dresden--Wizard Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable R… read more

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2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Fundamentalism and American Culture

By: George M. Marsden

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Many American's today are taking note of the surprisingly strong political force that is the religi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • church history
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction

4. Forsaken: The Trinity and the Cross, and Why It Matters

By: Thomas H. McCall

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

"My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" How should a Christian interpret this passage? What imp… read more

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  • christianity
  • christian
  • nonfiction
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5. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

By: Jeff Sharlet

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organi… read more

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7. God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right

By: Daniel K. Williams

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shoc… read more

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8. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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9. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • american
  • the united states of america
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

Cover of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk

10. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

By: Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

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13. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

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"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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15. Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect

By: John D. Inazu

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Are you discouraged by our divided, angry culture, where even listening to a different perspective … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling

By: Nijay K. Gupta

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers. Within Roman s… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

17. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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19. Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture

By: Christopher Watkin

4.55

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a wa… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies by N.T. Wright

20. Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies

By: N.T. Wright

4.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their pr… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology) by L. Michael Morales

21. Exodus Old and New: A Biblical Theology of Redemption (Essential Studies in Biblical Theology)

By: L. Michael Morales

4.66

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

The Gospel Coalition Book Award Center for Biblical Studies Book of the Year Award Biblical Found… read more

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  • christian
  • nonfiction
Cover of A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right by Matthew Rose

22. A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right

By: Matthew Rose

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial mo… read more

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  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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23. The Case for Christian Nationalism

By: Stephen Wolfe

3.51

Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical elites and the progressive media complex want you to think that Christian nationalism i… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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24. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

By: Randall Balmer

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of "the alliance between… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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25. The Religion of American Greatness

By: Paul D. Miller

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had s… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Justice requires neutrality, at some level."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"At no point has America’s culture been defined by its concern to “preserve"

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"Nationalism is incoherent in theory, illiberal in practice, and, I fear, often idolatrous in our hearts."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"The Bible is universal truth, but our interpretations of it are always historically and culturally conditioned."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

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26. The Lost World of the Prophets: Old Testament Prophecy and Apocalyptic Literature in Ancient Context (The Lost World Series)

By: John H. Walton

4.24

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Being responsive to God is at the heart of prophecy. But readers of ancient prophecies and apocalyp… read more

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  • christianity
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
Cover of God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music by Leah Payne

27. God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music

By: Leah Payne

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Traces Contemporary Christian Music's role in creating a theological and political vision for publi… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • church history
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal by Matthew T. Martens

28. Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal

By: Matthew T. Martens

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Noted Attorney and Seminary Graduate Matthew T. Martens Answers the Question: Does the Design and O… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church by Lester Ruth

29. A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas That Reshaped the Protestant Church

By: Lester Ruth

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) New forms of worship have transf… read more

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  • christian
  • history
Cover of Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor by Caleb E. Campbell

30. Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor

By: Caleb E. Campbell

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ministering to Christian Nationalists Pastor Caleb Campbell has watched as Christian nationalism h… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Faithful Politics: Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters by Miranda Zapor Cruz

31. Faithful Politics: Ten Approaches to Christian Citizenship and Why It Matters

By: Miranda Zapor Cruz

4.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Christians who seek to relate their faith to politics have always encountered tensions. Instead of … read more

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  • politics

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Richard Rothstein

2.89

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George M. Marsden

4.73

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Howard Zinn

3.00

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4.08

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4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Erik Larson

4.24

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