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Article: The Values Campaign? The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections.(Book review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- September 22, 2008
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The Values Campaign? The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell, & Clyde Wilcox. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 273pp. $44.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.
The Values Campaign is the fifth in a series of books that have chronicled the Christian Right's influence in state-level politics for the past two decades. This most recent volume is perhaps the most important of the series because it focuses on the 2004 elections--a context in which many observers believed that religious impulses and "moral values" were motivating voters with new force. The twelve essays that make up this book go a long way toward cutting ...