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'American Gospel' [5min]

Maureen Corrigan reviews Jon Meacham's American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, which explores the history of a subject that both obsesses and polarizes Americans: religion. Meacham is the managing editor of Newsweek and author of the bestselling biography Franklin and Winston, about the friendship between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
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