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Excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

When I was 14, in the summer of 1964, I lived with my family in Millington, Tennessee, just north of Memphis.

Here is something to think about: For the first time in a generation, the Religious Right had almost no visibility in the recent Congressional elections. The social issues that brought millions of conservative evangelicals out to the polls in previous years were simply missing from the debate. Instead, Americans focused on their worries about the economy, the deficit, and unemployment. This is actually an extremely significant and positive phenomenon.