A Catholic in the White House?
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A Catholic in the White House?

Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign

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eBook - PDF

A Catholic in the White House?

Religion, Politics, and John F. Kennedy's Presidential Campaign

About this book

According to most political and religious scholars and pundits, JFK's victory in 1960 symbolized America's evolution from a Protestant nation to a pluralist community that included Catholics as all citizens. However, if the presidential election of 1960 was indeed a turning point for American Catholics, how do we explain the failure of any Catholic - in over forty years - to repeat Kennedy's accomplishment? In this exhaustively researched study that fuses political, cultural, social and intellectual history, Thomas Carty challenges the assumption that JFK's successful campaign for the Presidency ended decades, if not centuries, of religious and political tension between American Catholics and Protestants, paving a new role for Catholics in American presidential politics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: The Unresolved ‘‘Catholic Issue’’: The Debate about Religion’s Role in the 1960 Presidential Campaign
  8. Chapter One: Popish Plots, Religious Liberty, and the Emerging Face of American Catholicism before 1928
  9. Chapter Two: Protestant America or a Nation of Immigrants?: Al Smith, Joe Kennedy, and Jim Farley Pursue the Nation’s Highest Office
  10. Chapter Three: Nativist Anti-Catholicism or Christian Evangelization?: Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, and the Marginalization of Religion during the 1960 Presidential Campaign
  11. Chapter Four: Religious Liberty or Religious Test? Debating the 1960 Campaign’s ‘‘Catholic Issue’’ in Liberal Organizations and Media
  12. Chapter Five: Defining Religious Bigotry: Pluralism and Political Strategy in the 1960 Presidential Election
  13. Chapter Six: The Cold War and the Domestic Response to Kennedy’s Catholicism
  14. Chapter Seven: Testing the ‘‘Bailey Thesis’’: State-level Reactions to a Catholic Presidential Candidate in California, Georgia, Michigan, and New York
  15. Epilogue: Catholics and Presidential Elections since 1960
  16. Notes
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index