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• Allen Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (Eerdmans, 1999)
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• Richard F. Hamilton, President McKinley, War and Empire (Transaction, 2006)
• H. Wayne Morgan, William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003)

• Paul Merkley, American Presidents, Religion and Israel (Praeger, 2004)
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• John Milton Cooper, The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard, 1983, 2007)
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• Paul Kengor, God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life (HarperCollins, 2004) and The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperPerennial, 2007)

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• Paul Boller Jr., George Washington and Religion (Southern Methodist University Press, 1963)
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