By John Fea.  ISBN-13:978-0-664-23504-8.  Copyright 2011.  Softcover with 287 pages including 10 black and white illustrations, notes, and index.

Finalist for the 2012 George Washington Book Prize.

Professor Fea’s historical introduction offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend.  He approaches the title’s question from a historical perspective, helping readers see beyond the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our shared American past.

A Mount Vernon bookplate, signed by the author, is included with your purchase.