A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015

The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it.

"The history Sutton assembles is rich, and the connections are startling."
-New Yorker

"American Apocalypse relentlessly and impressively shows how evangelicals have interpreted almost every domestic or international crisis in relation to Christ's return and his judgment upon the wicked...Sutton sees one of the most troubling aspects of evangelical influence in the spread of the apocalyptic outlook among Republican politicians with the rise of the Religious Right...American Apocalypse clearly shows just how popular evangelical apocalypticism has been and, during the Cold War, how the combination of odd belief and political power could produce a sleepless night or two."
-D. G. Hart, Wall Street Journal

"American Apocalypse is the best history of American evangelicalism I've read in some time...If you want to understand why compromise has become a dirty word in the GOP today and how cultural politics is splitting the nation apart, American Apocalypse is an excellent place to start."
-Stephen Prothero, Bookforum

About the Author
Matthew Avery Sutton is Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University.

Awards
Nominated for Philip Schaff Prize 2015 and Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion 2015 and Lawrence W. Levine Award 2015 and Pulitzer Prizes 2015 and S-USIH Annual Book Award 2015 and Bancroft Prize 2015 and New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2014 and Grawemeyer Award in Religion 2016 and Francis Parkman Prize 2015 and Norris and Carol Hundley Award 2015 and Hubert Morken Award 2015 and Albert J. Beveridge Award 2015.



Book Information
ISBN 9780674975439
Author Matthew Avery Sutton
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint The Belknap Press
Publisher Harvard University Press