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By Mark J. Rozell, Gleaves Whitney

ISBN-10: 0230120792

ISBN-13: 9780230120792

ISBN-10: 1403977712

ISBN-13: 9781403977717

This quantity opens a brand new road towards realizing the politics and regulations of many U.S. presidents. For years, best students have mostly neglected the non secular think about their reviews of presidents. but, because the essays during this booklet show, faith has had a massive impression on many serious presidencies in U.S. historical past. opposite to the normal knowledge, those essays demonstrate the deeply non secular aspect to such presidents as Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, between others.

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New Haven, CT: Thomas Green & Son, 1800), 28. See also Jonathan Huse, A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of . . Washington (Wiscasset, ME, 1800), 11; John Carroll, A Discourse on George Washington (Baltimore: Warner & Hanna, 1800), 4–5; Thaddeus Mason Harris, A Discourse . . after . . the Death of Washington (Charlestown, MA: Samuel Etheridge, 1800), 13. Francis Asbury, Letters and Journals, Elmer T. , 3 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958), January 4, 1800, 221; Carroll, A Discourse, 5, see also 6, 15, 21, and 24.

The quotation is from Daniel Blake Smith, Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980), 265. George Washington to George Augustine Washington, January 27, 1793, in WGW, 32: 315–316; George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, March 6, 1793, in WGW, 32: 376, quotations in that order. Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man, 26, 36. George Washington to Richard Washington, October 20, 1761, in PGW, Col. , 7: 80. The Faith of George Washington 37 119.

George Washington to Burgess Ball, September 22, 1799, in WGW, 37: 372. Henriques, “The Final Struggle,” 257, 259. The quotation is from Daniel Blake Smith, Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1980), 265. George Washington to George Augustine Washington, January 27, 1793, in WGW, 32: 315–316; George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, March 6, 1793, in WGW, 32: 376, quotations in that order. Flexner, Washington: The Indispensable Man, 26, 36.

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