![]() Bederman had been one of my graduate mentors, and she was the professor who first introduced me to gender as a category of analysis. For a course on US history from 1877-1920, this looked like a unit on Teddy Roosevelt, a unit largely based on Gail Bederman’s analysis of Roosevelt through the lens of race, gender, and power in her masterful book Manliness and Civilization. Struggling as I was to keep up with new course preps, I looked for every opportunity to bring my own expertise to bear on survey material. The project’s origins go back to around 2004 or 2005, my first years teaching at Calvin University (then College). Now, with the release date quickly approaching, I thought I’d take some time to reflect on the winding history of the book itself. When I started the project, I couldn’t have imagined the world it would be launching into. In a little over a week, my new book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nationwill find its way into the world.
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