Randall Balmer

Professor of American Religious History, Dartmouth College

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Professor of American Religious History at Dartmouth College and a prolific author on religion in America, including God in the White House: How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush

Randall Balmer on KCRW

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