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(More customer reviews)very good. it has letters by clergy's and others who wrote about the beliefs of the presidents very interesting
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The religious beliefs and church preferences of America's presidents have always been a topic of great interest and, indeed, have in recent history played a critical role in their electability to the nation's highest office. It is assumed that all the presidents have been practising religionists. But is this true? In this exhaustively researched history of the religious beliefs of America's first thirty-two presidents, from George Washington to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin Steiner organises his chapters not chronologically but by religious affiliation. Thus we learn that Washington was not a regular church attendant, that Jefferson and Lincoln were freethinkers, and that another half dozen presidents were of 'doubtful' religious belief. Appendices include 'Washington's Last Sickness and Death' and 'Religious Opinions and Habits of Washington'.
