Kevin M. Kruse: Leader

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“Business leaders, of course, had long been working to "merchandise" themselves through the appropriation of religion. In organizations such as Spiritual Mobilization, the prayer breakfast groups, and the Freedoms Foundation, they had linked capitalism and Christianity and, at the same time, likened the welfare state to godless paganism. After decades of work, these businessmen believed their efforts had finally paid off with the election of Dwight Eisenhower.”

Kevin M. Kruse

Source: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), p. 86

Religion , Business , Effort , Freedom

“The story of business leaders enlisting clergymen in their war against the New Deal is one that has been largely obscured by the very ideology that resulted from it.”

Kevin M. Kruse

Source: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), p. 292

War , Business

“James W. Fifield Jr. … convinced the industrialists that clergymen could be the means of regaining the upper hand in their war with Roosevelt in the coming years. As men of God, they could give voice to the same conservative complaints as business leaders, but without any suspicion that they were motivated solely by self-interest.”

Kevin M. Kruse

Source: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), p. 7

Men , God , War , Motivation