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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. "Against the Foes That Destroy the Family, Protestants and Catholics Can Stand Together": Divorce and Christian Ecumenism -- Chapter 2. American Jewish Politics Is Urban Politics -- Chapter 3. Fighting for the Fundamentals: Lyman Stewart and the Protestant Politics of Oil -- Chapter 4. A "Divine Revelation"? Southern Churches Respond to the New Deal -- Chapter 5. The Rise of Spiritual Cosmopolitanism: Liberal Protestants and Cultural Politics -- Chapter 6. "A Third Force": The Civil Rights Ministry of Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- Chapter 7. The Theological Origins of the Christian Right -- Chapter 8. More than Megachurches: Liberal Religion and Politics in the Suburbs -- Chapter 9. Knute Gingrich, All American? White Evangelicals, U.S. Catholics, and the Religious Genealogy of Political Realignment -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments

"Was the Vietnam War unavoidable? Historians have long assumed that ideological views and the momentum of events made American intervention inevitable. By examining the role of McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council, Andrew Preston demonstrates that policymakers escalated the conflict in Vietnam in the face of internal opposition, external pressures, and a continually failing strategy." "In challenging the prevailing view of Bundy as a loyal but quietly doubting warrior, Preston also revises our understanding of what it meant - and means - to be a hawk or a dove. The War Council is a story with two inseparable themes: the acquisition and consolidation of power; and how that power is exercised."--Jacket