Wonder-Working Power

The roots and the reach of the religious right.

Daniel McCarthy from the December 2006 issue

In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative Christians Are the Lifeblood of the Republican Party and Why That Terrifies the Democrats, by Patrick Hynes, Nashville: Nelson Current, 288 pages, $24.99

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