The immaculate mistake : how evangelicals gave birth to Donald Trump / Rodney Wallace Kennedy ; foreword by Randall Balmer ; preface by William V. Trollinger.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kennedy, Rodney (Author)
Other Authors:	Balmer, Randall Herbert (writer of foreword.) Trollinger, William Vance (Writer of preface)
Language:	English
Published:	Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2021]
Subjects:	Trump, Donald, > 1946- > Language. Trump, Donald, > 1946- Evangelicalism > Political aspects > United States. Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States. Christianity and politics > United States. Christianity and politics. Evangelicalism > Political aspects. Language and languages. Rhetoric > Political aspects. United States.
Physical Description:	xv, 215 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Billy Sunday: vaudeville revivalist
J. Frank Norris: a circus of enemies and a rhetoric of perversion
Jerry Falwell, Sr.: racism, revenge, and television
Robert Jeffries: high priest of American nationalism (formerly evangelicalism)
An alternative set of biblical tropes or Trump in a lesser light
An alternative pair of kingly tropes for Trump
Aristotle to the rescue: or, alternative rhetorical tropes for evangelicals and Trump.