60 minutes / Color
Release: 1996
Copyright: 1996
The symbiotic alliance between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon foreshadows the coming union of religion and politics. The marriage is consummated in Kanahwa County, West Virginia, where national conservative strategists help escalate a local textbook controversy into a major conflagration of jailings, bombings, and a miners' strike. Meanwhile, Watergate teaches Graham the perils of political entanglement. But from Berkeley's Jesus People to Kanahwa's fundamentalists, the die has been cast -- and the Religious Right is born.
A comprehensive six-hour series treating one of the most important political and cultural stories in contemporary America: the rising power of the Religious Right from 1950 through the 1990s.
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Conservative Christians rise up in Anaheim, California, to launch a nationwide revolt against sex education.
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Carter's election heralds a new era of evangelical engagement in every area of modern life, from broadcasting to basketball. But modern life also means divorce, feminism, and gay rights...
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New Right conservative strategists midwife a brood of new Christian political organizations.
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Calls for renewed patriotism and fierce attacks on liberalism set the agenda for George H.W. Bush's victory over Michael Dukakis.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
The Christian Coalition becomes one of the most politically adept membership organizations ever. Yet many inside the movement question if, in gaining power in the secular world, conservative Christians have lost their evangelical soul.
Calvin Skaggs and David Van Taylor | 1996 | 60 minutes | Color | English
