

It was made especially difficult by the fact that my publisher ended up dictating that I was not allowed to use the words ‘masculinity’ or ‘militarism’ anywhere in the subtitle or the title of the book, and this was simply because they were big words, and this is a trade book - it’s made for popular audiences - and they wanted a book that people would pick off the shelf. In a video where she discusses the tone of the book, she notes how the main title of the book was easy to determine but the subtitle was not: Trump, the body of the work doesn’t mention him until page 251. Although the introduction makes plentiful mention of Mr. That is at least how the jacket describes the book, but I believe this to be a poor description.


In Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, she lays out a seventy-five-year history of evangelical culture with an aim towards explaining the cultural rise of Donald Trump among white evangelicals. Kristin Kobes Du Mez (pronounced “doo may”) is a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
