Publisher Description
Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College in Virginia, a small Christian school that has earned the nickname “God’s Harvard.” Most of these students are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. The school grooms them to become the Christian elite of tomorrow, dispatching them to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science to wage the battle to take back a godless nation.
Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half following these students from campus to Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other centers of influence. Her account captures a nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also crisis, as it struggles to remake the modern world in its own image.
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“I have a sick fascination with the religious right. This was a very informative and generally well written story about Patrick Henry College, a conservative Christian evangelical school in Virginia with the mission to educate young Christians to enter politics and “take back the nation.” It is both fascinating and horrifying to me as a liberal-minded person. A lot of characters come into play, so by the end, it was a little hard to keep some names straight — some people are featured more prominently than others…some show up in the beginning or middle once and then are mentioned again in the final chapter and conclusion. If you are interested in politics and what drives them, this is a great book. I found it especially informative because it was written during the Bush administration. My first election was 2008, so before then, I didn’t have as much understanding of the national climate of our politics. It was an eye opener.”
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Emily (4 out of 5 stars)
