The Election of the Evangelical

America's quadrennial march to the polls offers a kind of collective punctuation, and historians have seized on these intervals to take the pulse of the nation. Daniel K. Williams's account of the 1976 presidential election is a worthy addition to this genre. “The 1976 election took place in the midst of bicentennial observances,” the author writes, “but for many Americans, the anniversary of the country's founding was a time not for proud celebration but for sober contemplation, because the nation seemed to have lost its way” (p. xiii). The two nominees, the incumbent Gerald Ford and his Democratic challenger, Jimmy Carter, impressed many Americans as lackluster candidates, but, as Williams demonstrates, the campaign was hardly uneventful. In the run-up to the primaries, Alabama's George C. Wallace raised more money than the other Democratic contenders, and Ford faced a spirited challenge from Ronald Reagan. In the month before Carter announced his

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