dakkafex 's review for:

American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism by Matthew Avery Sutton

3.25

reflective slow-paced

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Focuses quite heavily on the first half of the 20th century, and the various disputes and factions of the interwar period, but rather skips past a lot of the second half; 1960-2000 is all one chapter, and Roe v Wade and school busing aren't mentioned at all, for example, despite how critical they were to the initial organization of modern evangelical networks. It almost feels like the author got caught scrambling to meet a publisher deadline and had to rush the back half of the book as a result. Would have also liked a bit more interpretation and explanation to go with the narrative, but overall the research on display is clearly exhaustive, and I can read about the Moral Majority and their ilk elsewhere, so I'm glad he put the detail where he did.