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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation's capital. Most of them are home-schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. And God's Harvard grooms these students to be the elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science, to wage the battle to take back a godless nation. Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half embedded at the college, following the students from the campus to the White House, Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other centers of influence. Her account captures this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image. Review:"Envisioned by its founder as a 'Christian equivalent of the Ivy League,' Patrick Henry College positions itself as a training ground for God's cultural soldiers to take on the secular mainstream; at the seven-year-old Virginia school for evangelicals, religion and political journalist Rosin reports, girls are warned by e-mail if their bra strap is showing, dating requires parental permission and students fast forward through sex scenes in movies. Though they might seem out of touch, students here are as ambitious as any Ivy Leaguers, interning in the White House and Hollywood, volunteering on political campaigns and doggedly pursuing studies like baraminology (creationist biology). Having spent a year and a half immersed in the campus culture, Rosin weaves a deft and honest narrative of evangelical education, combining historical background (the roots of evangelism, the story of founder Michael Farris), close observation and skeptical wit. Among other students and faculty, Rosin introduces Derek, the fresh-faced, idealistic political volunteer; and Farahn, who gave up dancing for the Lord. Making it clear that the American evangelical population is growing in political and cultural influence, Rosin provides an illuminating, accessible guide to the beliefs, aspirations and ongoing challenges of its next generation." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"Rosin...presents an illuminating history of the evangelical movement in the United States and its leaders' largely successful attempt to guide conservative Christianity into the mainstream." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"[An] entertaining and enlightening read. More important, it's an eyewitness account of the evangelical movement and subculture. Recommended." Library Journal Synopsis:ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODS HARVARD
"Hanna Rosin has gotten incredible access to a subculture that is fast becoming a mighty political force. This insightful book reveals the new face of the Christian right: highly educated young people brilliantly trained to advance their worldview into mainstream America. Rosin's frank and candid portraits of these fiercely dedicated youth leave the reader wondering: What will my world be like when these kids are in charge of it?"—Rachel Grady, director and producer, Jesus Camp and The Boys of Baraka
“Hanna Rosin's wonderful book is as insightful as it is witty. Rarely is a book on such an important subject such a joy to read.”--Alan Wolfe, Boston College
“I believe deeply in this amazing book by Hanna Rosin. With clarity, honesty, and equal measures of surprised delight and foreboding, she takes us into a new world of Christian higher education that few outsiders knew existed but the entire nation will be dealing with for decades to come.”--David Maraniss, author of First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
“By reporting among Americas young Christian elite with curiosity, empathy, and persistence, Hanna Rosin has produced a book that is humane, surprising, and very unnerving. This is journalism at its best – never preachy, but honest and revealing.”—Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
About the AuthorHanna Rosin has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post. She has also written for the New Yorker, the New Republic, GQ, and the New York Times. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Slate deputy editor David Plotz, and their two children. Table of Contentscontents Introduction • 1 chapter one • 9 Welcome, Surfer Ninjas and Knights chapter two • 40 Harvard for Homeschoolers chapter three • 73 “Elisa Muench, Republican, for Idahos Senator.She Will Make a Difference.” chapter four • 104 America Is a Christian Nation, Capital “C,” Capital “N” chapter five • 125 Farahns Attempt to Hide Her Midriff chapter six • 151 “This Is It! Go for Smiles! Go for Christ!” chapter seven • 167 The Den of Sin chapter eight • 183 From Humanzee to Liger: A Brief History of Evolution chapter nine • 205 The Fifth Quadrant: Hollywood Finds God chapter ten • 231 Today I Met the Boy Im Gonna Marry chapter eleven • 250 Obey, All You Little Children Conclusion • 268 Acknowledgments • 284 Endnotes • 287 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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