Fitzgerald (Images of America)

Spirits of the Earth. FitzGerald is a great writer capable of keeping a sprawling narrative on point.

Anyone curious about the state of conservative American Protestantism will have a trusted guide in this Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize winner. We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it. Her book makes the case so well, it leaves readers with the feeling that we should all be paying closer attention. This is a comprehensive, heavily footnoted, yet readable study of how the evangelical tradition has become seared into the fabric of American life and the key figures who made it happen.

Fitzgerald, always judicious and unbiased, nobly succeeds in analyzing the nuanced differences between evangelicalism and fundamentalism, Calvinism and postmillennialism, charismatics and Pentecostals. This rich narrative ranges across the various Evangelical denominations while illuminating the doctrines—especially personal conversion as spiritual rebirth, and adherence to the Bible as ultimate truth—that unite them.

A complex and fascinating epic. They were always here. We were just not looking at them.

Art imitates life

What repeatedly makes us look again is what she is here to tell us. Now we have in one volume the richly textured, often puzzling, and always engaging story of American evangelicalism from colonial days to the present.

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Overflowing with historical anecdote and contemporary reportage and essential to interpreting the current political and cultural landscape. A Life of Nelson Rockefeller. She explains issues such as fundamentalism, biblical inerrancy, Christian nationalism, civil religion and anticommunism, the charismatic movement, and abortion, and introduces such diverse figures as Karl Barth, Jerry Falwell, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Pat Robertson.

Few movements in our long story have had as significant an influence on American life and culture as conservative Christianity, and FitzGerald does full justice to the subject's scope and complexity.

The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. Journalist and historian Frances FitzGerald presents nearly years of complex ideologies, schisms, social reforms and energetically creative theology in a well-organized, eye-opening narrative. This book is not only for those with a particular interest in religious history; it is for anyone with a serious interest in American social movements, politics and culture. It is a history that strongly re-emphasizes the evolution of a nation, and those who hope to shape the future are wise to study the past.

FitzGerald also deftly captures the 'exotic cast' of this pure product of America In the telling of this story, FitzGerald pulls off an admirable feat. She writes compassionately about generations of deeply held faith without seeming naive, even as she resists cynicism while noting the psychotics, charlatans, and con artists who have sometimes arisen to "deceive the very elect. When I began taking photographs of Ireland some forty years ago I felt an immediate connection with Irish emigrants in America, the thousands of people who had left the old country to begin a new life in Boston and New York.

The landscape back home was dotted with abandoned stone cottages and derelict farmhouses. The desolation reminded me of my own departure. I was forced out of Ireland myself at the age of fourteen, wrongly accused of stealing a bottle of lemonade at a country crossroads dance.

The consequences of that Sunday summer evening was the reason I left my homeland far too soon. I naturally sensed a strange affinity with those who had journeyed out before me. All Irish emigrants of the old country keep some part of the homeland firmly in their memory, images of a time past that linger on in the mind exactly as we remember it, and held there forever unchanged.

Americans abroad

My own memories seemed to concentrate on the dark mysterious side of Ireland that I experienced in my youth, a time when many villages still had no electricity, and at night-time the homes were dimly lit with the calm flickering flames of candlelight and Tilly lamps. I remember too the small backroads where rural life was a daily struggle for both man and beast.

Later I opened a studio in London photographing celebrities. Fifteen years passed before I plucked up the courage to venture home on a visit to Ireland — it felt as though someone might still tap me on the shoulder and ask me to leave again. On my return home to Ireland I was immediately gripped with a strong desire to record a way of life that was fast disappearing — it was stealing away almost unnoticed in the rush of modernization.

I wanted to capture the essence of that old world, celebrating its unfathomable beauty. Since I first took to the road with my camera back in the early s, I have travelled to the remotest parts of Ireland, focusing on the dark underbelly of the land of my birth.

Horses and jaunting cart at Inch beach, Co. I took this photograph early one morning after spending the night camping on the nearby sand dunes. He invited me to his home and we drank tea together.