american grace co-authored with david campbell came out last year. the paperback will appear early next year. you can learn more on the website, which is americangrace.org, which we will link to from our blog. professor putnam, thank you again for your time tonight. i appreciate it. thank you, rachel. all right. dick cheney will soon be on a media blitz for his hotly anticipated new book. at the end of the show, i will make a shameless appeal for him to adjust one more stop to his tour! we ll be right back. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made.
tonight and for helping us to understand this. the hard cover edition of american grace co-authored with david campbell came out last year. the paperback will appear early next year. you can learn more on the website, which is americangrace.org, which we will link to from our blog. professor putnam, thank you again for your time tonight. i appreciate it. thank you, rachel. all right. dick cheney will soon be on a media blitz for his hotly anticipated new book. at the end of the show, i will make a shameless appeal for him to add just one more stop to his tour! we ll be right back. this is our pool. our fireworks. and our slip and slide. you have your idea of summer fun, and we have ours. now during the summer event get an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz for an exceptional price. but hurry, this offer ends august 31st.
robert putnam, professor of public policy at harvard, thank you so much for your time tonight and for helping us to understand this. the hard cover edition of american grace co-authored with david campbell came out last year. the paperback will appear early next year. you can learn more on the website, which is americangrace.org, which we will link to from our blog. professor putnam, thank you again for your time tonight. i appreciate it. thank you, rachel. all right. dick cheney will soon be on a media blitz for his hotly anticipated new book. at the end of the show, i will make a shameless appeal for him to adjust one more stop to his tour! tour! we ll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities.
governor mitt romney competed for the republican nomination. it looks like he will try again in 2012. another politician, john huntsman may also challenge president obama. what role will the mormon faith play if any for the political contenders? joining us is the professor campbell and coauthor of american grace, how religion divides and unites us. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. shannon: at love people when you bring this up harken back to john f. kennedy being the first catholic president. are we ready to take the next step? should it make a difference about the religious faith of person they are electing? a matter of great debate for people like myself to observe politics whether it s legitimate question to ask a candidate about his or her faith, but it will happen whether we consider it legitimate or not.
whom? david campbell is co-author of american grace and rabbi jamie corngold. professor, let me start with you since this is the title of your book. how does religion unite and divide us? the important thing to keep in mind is that we put the word divide and unite in our title for a reason and, as you mention, in politics, religion does serve to divide americans over the last generation or so. we ve seen a growth in what is sometimes called the god gap where people are more religious or more likely to vote on the right for republican party or republican candidates and people less religious less likely to vote for republicans. there are exceptions. they actually vote more on the left than on the right, but that s only one-half of the story of religion in america because while it s easy to see