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(0)Frances FitzGerald
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Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the second World War would conservative evangelicalism gain momentum, thanks in large...
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This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam-the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention-and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes.
Originally published in 1972, FIRE IN...