Less Than Conquerors: How Evangelicals Entered the Twentieth Century

Although evangelicals enjoyed respect and leadership in American society in the decades before the Civil War, their fortunes declined precipitately in the wake of the industrialism, modernism, and secularism of the next half-century. By the 1920's evangelicals felt like an embattled minority within a largely unbelieving culture, and perceived that history was very much out of their control. Douglas W. Frank examines the spiritual significance of these events.