TY - BOOK AU - Poole,W.Scott TI - Satan in America: the Devil we know SN - 9780742561717 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BT982 .P66 2009 U1 - 306.6/35470973 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Devil KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Christianity KW - Good and evil KW - National characteristics, American KW - Political culture KW - Violence KW - Religious life and customs KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: "Night stalker" : American exceptionalism and the reality of evil -- "The Devil is come down in great wrath" : the American Satan in the colonial and Revolutionary worlds -- Darkness invisible : the Devil and American revivalism -- The devils of Daniel Webster : satanic cultural politics through World War I -- Casting out devils : American theology and popular religion meets the Devil -- Hellhound on my trail : Satan and twentieth-century American culture -- Lucifer rising : satanic panics and culture wars -- The beast : Satan and the theology of American empire -- Epilogue: Shame the Devil : the problem of evil and American cultural history -- Hunting the Devil : a bibliographic essay ER -