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A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes


Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics — boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates.

Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.

ISBN-13: 9780465060863

Media Type: Hardcover(New Edition)

Publisher: Basic Books

Publication Date: 06-04-2019

Pages: 688

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 2.20(d)

Darren Dochuk is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of From Bible Belt to Sunbelt, which received the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association (best first or second book in American history) and the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (best book in post-Civil War political history), and was based on a dissertation that was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians (best dissertation in American history). He has also edited several other books in American religious history. Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta—Canada's oil capital—he now lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Strange Career of Patillo Higgins 1

Introduction 7

Part 1 Crude Awakenings

Chapter 1 Rules of Capture 21

Chapter 2 Worlds of Wonder 65

Chapter 3 Dawn of the Gusher Age 101

Part 2 Carbon Gospels

Chapter 4 Trust Busting 141

Chapter 5 American Plans 183

Chapter 6 Fightin' Oil 229

Part 3 Petro Wars

Chapter 7 Holy Grounds 273

Chapter 8 Wildcat Redemption 325

Chapter 9 The Great Game 367

Part 4 Crude Reckonings

Chapter 10 Power Shifts 411

Chapter 11 Approaching Armageddon 455

Chapter 12 The End of the American Century 499

Epilogue God and Black Gold in the New Millennium 543

Acknowledgments 561

Appendix: Cast of Characters and Corporations 567

Notes 573

Selected Bibliography 633

Index 643