A Catholic in the White House? [electronic resource] : religion, politics, and John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign / Thomas J. Carty.
Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 215 p. : illSubject(s):- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1960
- Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography
- Catholics -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century
- Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Anti-Catholicism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963
- E837.7 .C37 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-210) and index.
Introduction : the unresolved "Catholic issue" : the debate about religion's role in the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Popish plots, religious liberty, and the emerging face of American Catholicism before 1928 -- Protestant America or a nation of immigrants? : Al Smith, Joe Kennedy, and Jim Farley pursue the nation's highest office -- Nativist anti-Catholicism or Christian evangelization? : Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale, and the marginalization of religion during the 1960 Presidential campaign -- Religious liberty or religious test? : debating the 1960 campaign's "Catholic issue" in liberal organizations and media -- Defining religious bigotry : pluralism and political strategy in the 1960 Presidential election -- The Cold War and the domestic response to Kennedy's Catholicism -- Testing the "Bailey thesis" : state-level reactions to a Catholic Presidential candidate in California, Georgia, Michigan, and New York -- Epilogue: Catholics and Presidential elections since 1960.
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