Informative and short, just like how I like my history books. I really liked the writing and the subject of the book.

This book is very well researched, and explains that the founders were Christian's but also Calvinists, Quakers and Puritans. They also studied the popular philosophers and were quite literate and erudite free thinkers. The problem is people use Christianity as a concept that has changed quite a bit since that time. It was a very interesting read.

This book started out to be interesting but soon it bored me to tears. It soon became a search any hint, no matter how remote, that one or more of our nation's founders was a theist and not a deist. It was an attempt to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. I even watched the BookTV debate between the author and strongly opinionated deist who has written a book that is totally contrary to Prof. Hall's main thesis. The give and take was quite lively but, alas, very boring. I wouldn't send my hard-earned dollars on either book.

ARC from NET GALLEY

How DARE Mark David Hall, interrupt the popular narrative with historical fact?!

How DARE he settles the fabricated argument of Deism vs Christianity?

Now I DARE some of y9ou to take a break from repetitive series and read your history and think about this, "If it was built on Christian beliefs, it will not survive without those beliefs".

Don;t get mad, read and see. Excellent!