BEN'S HISTORY CORNER
BBB Rated Books of 2006
This is a feeble stab by a first year PhD student to pick the best books on history, religion, and culture published in 2006. People who are interested in America’s relationship to the world, especially its peculiar religious traditions, might find some of these books worth reading.

A Nation among Nations: America’s Place in World History.
Thomas Bender (Hill and Wang)
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis
Alan Jacobs (HarperSanFrancisco)
The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
Philip Jenkins (Oxford)
Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America.
Eric Raughway (Hill and Wang)
The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
Odd Arne Westad (Cambridge)
Fundamentalism and American Culture. Second Edition.
George Marsden (Oxford)
A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State
D.G. Hart (Ivan R. Dee)
American at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
Francis Fukuyama (Yale)