he's the author of numerous other books, including ones on american populous, a book on jerry falwell, and he is a guggenheim fellow. i happen to know he is working on a new brilliant interpretation for a textbook for american history you should all expect to be purchasing in the next 18 months or so. so matt, i turn it over to you. >> thank you so much, jeff, and thank you to the panel for putting this together. it's been interesting hearing the first couple of papers. and how this is popped up. because this is a topic i will focus on. as we all know, bludgeon can inspire great behavior and bad behavior. when i will be discussing is how religion can inspire presidential -- this is not a surprise to anybody in this room. we can see how groups of religious activists have hated barack obama, joe biden. i'm going to talk more about the roots of that. we are comes from but also specifically on franklin d. roosevelt. the reason this has not gotten as much attention as it should, is that there has been a real problem with historiography. falwellthere is a sense that whn jerry falwell came o

should, as there has been a real problem in history augur for you, there has been a sense that when jerry falwell came on the scene in the late 1970s and organize the moral majority it was at that point that white evangelicals began to critically mobilize it. that is just wrong. anyone has read the literature knows that is wrong. but it perpetuates itself continues to spread that evangelicals are apolitical until the last couple of generations. what is going to show you today's how the rise of new deal liberalism inspired a new evangelical political activism which organized itself into real hatred for president franklin delano roosevelt. why did they hate roosevelt what was the issue? the real issue behind this is they believed franklin roosevelt was ultimately setting the stage for the rise of the antichrist. diabolical world leader who's going to take power to the ends of times. they were convinced we are living at the end of history. so in their minds and their magazines and on the radio stations they were continuously looking for signs that would tell us how close we were to what the

there's been this sense that when jerry falwell came on the scene in the late 1970s and organized the moral majority, that itat was at that point tha white evangelicals began to politically mobilize. that's wrong.s anyone who has read the literature knows this thalt is wrong, but the myth continues to perpetuate itself and spread that evangelicals were apolitical until the last couple generations, but what i'm going to show you today is how the rise of new deal liberalism inspired a new kind of evangelical political activism which f organized itself or fomented itself into hatred for franklin i roosevelt. why did they hate roosevelt? the real f issue behind this is they believed franklin roosevelt was ultimately setting the stage for the rise of the antichrist. this t diabolical world leader o was going to take power in the end times. so they believed, they were convinced that we were living at the end of history, and that we are living at the end of history. and so in their minds, in their churches and in their magazines and on their radio stations, they were continuously looking for

during the second world war" and author of numerous other books, one os american apocalypse, book on jerry falwell and amy simple mcpherson. and a fellow of the wilson center and guggenheim fellow and i happen to know he's working on a new, brilliant, new interpretation for a textbook for american history that you should all expect to be purchasing in the next 18 months or so. so without further ado, matt. >> thank you jeff. and thank you to the paenlss and the a.j. for putting this together.nelists and the a.j. for putting this together. it's been interesting hearing how religion popped up because that is a topic i'm going to be focusing on today. and religion can inspire lots of great behavior and also inspire lots of bad behavior and i'm be discussing how religion can at times inspire presidential hatred and this is not a surprise to anyone in the room i'm sure. we can see how groups of religious activists have hated hillary clinton, barack obama, joe biden. and focusing on franklin del nor roosevelt. there's been a sense that when jerry falwell came on the scene late 1970s and organize