Chris Beneke

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod

History & Biography

“For many reasons, this could not have been an easy book to write–and perhaps no one besides James Burkee could have carried out the task so successfully. With a critical eye and a sympathetic heart, Burkee illuminates the mechanics of America's rightward turn of the 1960s and 70s through the history of one of its great churches. This is a crisply told story of institutional transformation with profound implications for the entire nation.”