American Apocalypse

A history of fundamentalist evangelicalism that places premillennialism and apocalyptic prophecy at the center of the movement, particularly as it developed and morphed – sometimes in drastic and inherently contradictory ways – throughout the twentieth century. Matthew Avery Sutton makes some broad generalizations here that certainly don’t represent everyone who claims the “evangelical” label, but it's a fascinating, important take on how American Christianity came to be the way it is today.