Full name: The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief

Author: George M. Marsden Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Politics, Non Fiction, Religion, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780465030101 0465030106

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular, liberal elites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course. Their failure lost them the faith of their constituents, paving the way for a Christian revival that offered America a firm new moral vision--one rooted in the Protestant values of the founders. Similar books: The King's Two Bodies by Ernst H. Kantorowicz Fundamentalism and American Culture by George M. Marsden The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong Fields of Blood by Karen Armstrong Inventing the Individual by Larry Siedentop It IS About Islam by Glenn Beck The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Orientalism by Edward W. Said Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire After the Prophet by Lesley Hazleton The Age of Faith by Will Durant Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg Paradise Now by Chris Jennings The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin