“Reads like a thriller about greed, grift, and God—yet every word is true... No book has taught me more about who America is today and the forces that delivered us here.”
Michael Blanding is an investigative journalist and best-selling author of The Map Thief, In Shakespeare’s Shadow, and the upcoming The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby (PublicAffairs, July 14, 2026).
The book is a revelatory account of how the family behind Hobby Lobby rose to political prominence and used their influence—and fortune—to push a radical religious agenda. They have propped up evangelical education through donations money and land; funneled millions of dollars to organizations working to overturn Roe v. Wade and to undermine LGBTQ rights; successfully fought a Supreme Court case to deny employees insurance coverage for contraception; and acquired looted, stolen, and forged artifacts from the Middle East to stock their multimillion-dollar Museum of the Bible. In a riveting exposé, Blanding traces the pivotal role the Green family has played in funding and empowering America’s dangerous, ascendant Christian nationalist movement.
“This page-turner sheds light on one family’s efforts to embed Christian nationalism into the heart of our nation. Absorbing and fearless, [it] exposes a movement that is reshaping the American political landscape.”