Volume 55, Number 7 · May 1, 2008
Praying with the Founders
By Gordon S. Wood
Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What's Happened Since
by Stephen Mansfield
Thomas Nelson, 246 pp., $25.99
So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle over Church and State
by Forrest Church
Harcourt, 530 pp., $28.00
In March 1801 the newly elected vice-president of the United States, Aaron Burr, was criticized for his neglect of religion. A close political associate warned Burr, who was the grandson of the great theologian Jonathan Edwards, that if he wanted to continue to have a successful political career, he had better think of the Presbyterian vote. 'Had you not better go to church?' he suggested.
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