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Article: God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
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- Anglican Theological Review
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- July 1, 2008
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. By Walter Russell Mead. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 464 pp. $27.95 (cloth).
Walter Russell Mead has offered a ground-breaking study on American exceptionalism and how the sense of divine providence has been shaped by the economic, political, and military realities of the United States. God and Gold is a book of intellectual history and a book on American foreign policy. But more than these, this is a book about God, about how and why Americans conceive of God's presence and providence and the consequences that has for our lives-from individualistic views of human rights and the embrace of free markets and technological ...
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