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Kevin M. Kruse (PhD, Cornell University) is Professor of History at Princeton University. Dr. Kruse studies the political, social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America. Focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion, he has particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement, the rise of religious nationalism and the making of modern conservatism.

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	The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author), Linda Villarosa 4.61 avg rating — 24,194 ratings — published 2019 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America 3.96 avg rating — 2,596 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse (Editor), Julian E. Zelizer (Editor), Akhil Reed Amar (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 2,353 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer 4.05 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism 4.28 avg rating — 1,035 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections by Stacey Abrams, Carol Anderson, Kevin M. Kruse 4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Suburban History by Kevin M. Kruse (Editor), Thomas J. Sugrue (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement by Kevin M. Kruse (editor), Stephen Tuck (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present by Pippa Holloway (Editor), Alexander Macaulay (Contributor), Andrew Doyle (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“President Eisenhower, like many Americans, is a very fervent believer in a very vague religion.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

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“THE ORIGINAL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, much like the Constitution itself, did not acknowledge the existence of God. Its author, Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister from Rome, New York, was a decidedly religious man, but when he wrote the pledge in the 1890s he described himself as something that would seem an oxymoron in Eisenhower’s America: a “Christian socialist.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

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“Through all these various revisions, the pledge remained godless. But as the Christian libertarian movement of “under-God consciousness” swept the nation in the early 1950s, a campaign to add that phrase to the pledge began in earnest. The idea originated with the Knights of Columbus, a leading Catholic fraternal organization.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past
by Kevin M. Kruse

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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig

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For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
by Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy

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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
by Boyce Upholt

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
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My Next Breath
by Jeremy Renner

4 votes, 5.6%

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