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God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation [audio 51min]

Jon Meacham, author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Random House), looks back at how the founding fathers struggled to assign religion its proper place in society and why the balance they struck remains critical today. Meacham is managing editor of Newsweek; his previous book is Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship..
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"