Jon Ward is senior political correspondent for Yahoo News, author of Camelot's End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party (Twelve Books, 2019), and host of “The Long Game” podcast. Jon has covered American politics and culture for two decades, as a city desk reporter in Washington D.C., as a White House correspondent, and as a national affairs correspondent who has traveled the country to write about two presidential campaigns and the ideas and people animating our times. In this episode of Footnotes, we talk about this upcoming book Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation. We break down the history of evangelicalism, where it came from and how it got to what we see it as now, and the ramifications of that evolution.

Substack: https://jonward.substack.com/Website: https://www.jonwardwrites.org/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Testimony-Inside-Evangelical-Movement-Generation/dp/1587435772

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