In the spring of 1740, an itinerant English preacher named George Whitefield rode into a Connecticut field and addressed three thousand farmers. By nightfall, a continent was on fire. What followed in the next half century — the bullets that passed through Washington's coat at the Monongahela, the pulpits that armed thirteen colonies with conscience, the fog that hid an army on the East River, the storm that ended the war at Yorktown, the unscripted So help me God on a New York balcony — has been remembered as politics, as warfare, as Enlightenment philosophy. It was always more than that.
One Nation Under God tells the story of the American Revolution as the men and women who lived it told it: as a Providence. From the revival fires of the Great Awakening to the inauguration of the first president, this is the hidden history of the founding — the preachers, soldiers, financiers, and printers whom Heaven used to birth a republic.
In honor of America's 250th year. Twelve chapters. One nation. One Providence.