"James W. Fifield Jr. ... convinced the industrialists that clergymen could be the means of regaining the upper hand in their war with Roosevelt in the coming years. As men of God, they could give voice to the same conservative complaints as business leaders, but without any suspicion that they were motivated solely by self-interest."
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Kevin M. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (2015), p. 3
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