Description: From the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.
Brief description: Kristin Kobes Du Mez is professor of history at Calvin University. She is currently a senior democracy fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute. She has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post and been interviewed on NPR, PBS, and the BBC, among others outlets. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Review Quotes: Charting a path from 19th century New Thought to 21st century tradwives, with stops along the way at Little House on the Prairie and the bedroom of a mythical "Total Woman," Kristin Kobes Du Mez transforms our understanding of money, sex, power, and gender in U.S. history. You simply cannot grasp the scale of Christian nationalism without this vivid and essential exploration of a distinctly American religion of white womanhood. Startling, heartbreaking and terrifying, Live Laugh Love is a key volume in the new history of how we come to this contested moment.--Jeff Sharlet, bestselling author of The Undertow and The Family