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''The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition'' is Joel D. Vaughan's insider's history of the organization. Released by Wipf & Stock in 2009, Vaughan's is the only history of the organization that received much credit for the 1994 Republican takeover of both houses of Congress. ==Background== The Christian Coalition was founded in 1989 by religious broadcaster and former Republican presidential candidate M. G. "Pat" Robertson. The Christian Coalition sought to identify ten pro-life voters in each of America's 175,000 precincts. Robertson hired University of Georgia doctoral student Ralph E. Reed, Jr., to run the organization and watched Reed take it to greater heights in American politics. When Reed left the Christian Coalition in 1997 in order to become a full-time Republican political consultant, Robertson brought in Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel as president and former Representative from Washington State Randy Tate as executive director. Hodel resigned two years later out of a dispute with Robertson over the direction and principles represented by the organization, and Tate left later the same year. Robertson then brought in board member and South Carolina state chairman Roberta Combs as executive vice president, before turning over the presidency to her in late 2001. Joel D. Vaughan began with Reed in 1989 as a volunteer, stuffing envelopes and hammering in yard signs. In 1991, he joined the field department, becoming deputy national field director in 1993. He joined Hodel's staff in 1997 as special assistant to the president and was promoted to director of administration in 1998. Currently serving as Chief of Staff for Focus on the Family, Vaughan has been at the forefront of the Christian Right for over two decades, and alongside its most notable leaders: (in chronological order) Robertson, Reed, Hodel, Dr. James Dobson, and Focus on the Family President James Daly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dobson's Successor Gives Mega Ministry New Focus )〕 Vaughan's book is not only a history of the Christian Coalition but is the definitive book on the Religious Right in American politics. In classroom use at the university level at Georgetown University and elsewhere, ''The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition'' gives students an inside look, the only inside look, at this phenomenal organization and its controversial leadership. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Rise and Fall of the Christian Coalition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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