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Book SynopsisFor most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the Cold War era, his many enemies depicted him as a dangerous far rightist, a racist, or a McCarthyite opportunist engaged in red-baiting for personal profit. Despised and hounded by liberals, revered by fundamentalists, and distrusted by the center, he became a lightning rod in the early American culture wars. Markku Ruotsila''s Fighting Fundamentalist, the first scholarly biography of McIntire, peels off the accumulated layers of caricature and makes a case for restoring McIntire to his place as one of the most consequential religious leaders in the twentieth-century United States. The book traces McIntire''s life from his early twentieth-century childhood in Oklahoma to his death in 2002. From his discipleship under J. Gresham Machen during the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, through
Trade Reviewthis is an important, well-constructed book. It adds a significant chapter to the rise of politicised Evangelicalism, and it establishes the importance of Carl McIntire. * Joel A. Carpenter, Calvin College, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
We have long needed serious studies of both figures. In each case the authors serve us well. * Justus D. Doenec, Anglican and Episcopal History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 Beginnings: The Making of a Fundamentalist ; Chapter 2 Come-Outer: The Twentieth Century Reformation Movement ; Chapter 3 Leading the Charge: The Making of Christian Libertarianism ; Chapter 4 Cold Warrior: The Worldwide Fight for Liberation ; Chapter 5 Exposing Red Clergy: McCarthyism in the Churches ; Chapter 6 Massive Resistance: Struggles for Civil Rights ; Chapter 7 Under Siege: The Radical Right Years ; Chapter 8 "Kill a Commie": Marching for Victory in Vietnam ; Chapter 9 Broadening the Agenda: Towards the New Christian Right ; Chapter 10 Prophet Forsaken: The Last Years ; Epilogue: Carl McIntire's Legacy ; Manuscript Collections Consulted ; Notes ; Index
