The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America [Paperback]

Not since the Civil War has the United States been so polarized, politically and ideologically. At the heart of this fracture is a fascinating, paradoxical marriage between our country's politics and religions.

In The Holy Vote, Ray Suarez explores the advent of this polarization and how it is profoundly changing the way we live our lives. With hands-on reporting, Suarez explores the attitudes and beliefs of the people behind the voting numbers and how the political divide is manifesting itself across the country. The reader will come to a greater understanding of what Americans believe, and how this belief structure fuels the debates that dominate the issues on our evening news broadcasts.

Not since the Civil War has the United States been so polarized, politically and ideologically. At the heart of this fracture is a fascinating, paradoxical marriage between our country's politics and religions.

InThe Holy Vote, Ray Suarez explores the advent of this polarization and how it is profoundly changing the way we live our lives. With hands-on reporting, Suarez explores the attitudes and beliefs of the people behind the voting numbers and how the political divide is manifesting itself across the country. The reader will come to a greater understanding of what Americans believe, and how this belief structure fuels the debates that dominate the issues on our evening news broadcasts.

Ray Suarez is a national resource...a shining exception to the high-tech monoculture of received opinion. Amid the drone of corporate-sponsored expertise, he resists easy formulas and raises probing questions, offering humane inquiry into how people actually live. -Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review

Nimble, formidably well-read, and thoughtful, Ray Suarez is the anti-Limbaugh, a thinking persons talk-show host. -Utne Reader

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