EXCERPTS

From the Introduction
My first interview with James Dobson was pretty much a fluke. It was just after Election Day 2004, and the entire Washington press corps was scrambling to report the story of how white evangelicals had handed President George W. Bush a second term. My editor at U.S. News & World Report called me into his office on the morning after the election with an assignment to write about these newly branded “values voters.” I had forty-eight hours... more

From Chapter 6
The Terri Schiavo affair was a new high-water mark for the Christian Right. Never had the White House and Congress moved so quickly and transparently to satisfy the movement, and on an issue as unpopular with a broad majority of the American people.... more