by Randall Balmar
I really liked this book about my hero, Jimmy Carter. Yes, it’s another bio of the great man, but is unique in it’s focus on the evangelical angle. Balmar tries to understand how the evangelical movement, the Moral Majority/Religious Right, sought to bring Ronald Reagan to power as a result of their (ridiculous) beef with the IRS, and their strategy of using abortion as a red flag to rile up their poorly educated followers. A very effective strategy that we are still paying for to this day. God help us.