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George W. Bush and the Latest Evangelical Menace
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 53, Number 4, Fall 2006 (whole No. 225)
- pp. 42-49
- 10.1353/dss.2006.0089
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In March 2003, Newsweek pronounced George W. Bush's presidency the "most resolutely 'faith based' in modern times." This judgment is plausible enough to merit serious consideration but it is self-evidently true only if modern times began on January 20, 1989, when George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, there has been little serious examination of this judgment. Rather, a facile stereotype of a "faith-based" presidency has become conventional wisdom among Bush's friends and foes alike.