One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780465049493 (0465049494)
ASIN: 0465049494
Publish date: 2015-04-14
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Business,
Culture,
Religion,
Politics,
American History,
Sociology,
Christianity,
Spirituality,
Society
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