Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise

by Kevin M. Schultz

Book Overview

President Franklin D. Roosevelt put it bluntly, if privately, in 1942-the United States was "a Protestant country," he said, "and the Catholics and Jews are here under sufferance."

In Tri-Faith America, Kevin Schultz explains how the United States left behind this idea that it was "a Protestant nation" and replaced it with a new national image, one premised on the notion that the country was composed of three separate, equally American faiths-Protestants,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195331761
• ISBN13: 9780195331769
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"