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A Catholic in the White House? [electronic resource] : religion, politics, and John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign / Thomas J. Carty.

By: Carty, Thomas (Thomas Joseph).
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: viii, 215 p. : ill.Subject(s): Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960 | Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography | Catholics -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century | Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Anti-Catholicism -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963Genre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction : the unresolved "Catholic issue" : the debate about religion's role in the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Popish plots, religious liberty, and the emerging face of American Catholicism before 1928 -- Protestant America or a nation of immigrants? : Al Smith, Joe Kennedy, and Jim Farley pursue the nation's highest office -- Nativist anti-Catholicism or Christian evangelization? : Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, and the marginalization of religion during the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Religious liberty or religious test? : debating the 1960 campaign's "Catholic issue" in liberal organizations and media -- Defining religious bigotry : pluralism and political strategy in the 1960 Presidential election -- The Cold War and the domestic response to Kennedy's Catholicism -- Testing the "Bailey thesis" : state-level reactions to a Catholic Presidential candidate in California, Georgia, Michigan, and New York -- Epilogue: Catholics and Presidential elections since 1960.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-210) and index.

Introduction : the unresolved "Catholic issue" : the debate about religion's role in the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Popish plots, religious liberty, and the emerging face of American Catholicism before 1928 -- Protestant America or a nation of immigrants? : Al Smith, Joe Kennedy, and Jim Farley pursue the nation's highest office -- Nativist anti-Catholicism or Christian evangelization? : Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, and the marginalization of religion during the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Religious liberty or religious test? : debating the 1960 campaign's "Catholic issue" in liberal organizations and media -- Defining religious bigotry : pluralism and political strategy in the 1960 Presidential election -- The Cold War and the domestic response to Kennedy's Catholicism -- Testing the "Bailey thesis" : state-level reactions to a Catholic Presidential candidate in California, Georgia, Michigan, and New York -- Epilogue: Catholics and Presidential elections since 1960.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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