"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta.

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2. I'll check it out. I'm 94 on the library's waiting list but they have several copies.

Did you read American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges? It was scary as hell & a portent for what was to come.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69095.American_Fascists

"American Fascists," which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary.

The book was published in 2007.