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14. Huckabee, personal interview. The comments that follow are from the same interview.
15. See Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (New York: Back Bay, 2011).
16. Huckabee, personal interview.
17. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. “Hope Welcomes Boys State Governor,” Hope Star, June 13, 1972, 2.
21. “Saul Alinsky Died Monday,” Hope Star, June 13, 1972, 2.
Chapter 10: The Christian Woodstock
1. Bill Bright, Revolution Now (San Bernardino: Campus Crusade for Christ, 1969), 7–8.
2. John G. Turner, “The Christian Woodstock,” Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2008, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120062657590499869. Also, John G. Turner, Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ: The Renewal of Evangelicalism in Postwar America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
3. Bill Bright, Come Help Change the World (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1970).
4. Liz Clarke, “A Higher Power,” Washington Post, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401861.html.
5. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002); Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message & Mission (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995). Warren and Huckabee attended the same seminary during the mid-1970s. Given the sales figures of Huckabee’s own books, a case could be made that these two have sold more books in their lifetime than any other two fellow seminarians.
6. Paul Eshleman and Norman B. Rohrer, The Explo Story: A Plan to Change the World (Glendale, CA: G/L Regal Books, 1972).
7. Giles Wilson, “The Most Watched Film in History,” BBC News Online Magazine, July 21, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3076809.stm.
8. Clarke, “A Higher Power.”
9. Turner, Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ, 144.
Chapter 11: Live and Let Live
1. Mike Huckabee, “This Past Sunday Marked the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles’ Debut on the Ed Sullivan Show,” Mike Huckabee’s Facebook page, February 14, 2014, https://www.facebook.com/Mikehuckabee/posts/10151975922612869.
2. Roger Ebert, “American Graffiti” (movie review), http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-graffiti-1973.
3. “Fire Truck Flipped Enroute to Fire,” Hope Star, October 20, 1972, 1.
4. Mike Huckabee, “Right Now It’s That Magic Time of the Year Again—School Time!” Baptist Trumpet, August 22, 1973, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19730822.pdf.
5. Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
6. Ibid.
7. Alex Strawn, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
8. Ibid.
9. Melinda Henneberger, “Shoots Bear, Submits to Husband: The Fascinating Marriage of Mike and Janet Huckabee,” Slate, January 29, 2008, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/first_mates/2008/01/shoots_bear_submits_to_husband.html; also retold by Lester Sitzes in personal interview with the author.
10. Strawn, personal interview.
11. Ibid.
12. “Hope High School Announces Honor Graduates,” Hope Star, June 2, 1973, 4.
13. Strawn, personal interview.
14. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 82.
15. “Calendar of Events,” Hope Star, August 4, 1973, 3.
16. Mike Huckabee, “Welcome Aboard the ‘RAP’ture Express!” Baptist Trumpet, August 8, 1973, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19730808.pdf.
17. Sitzes, personal interview.
18. Mike Huckabee, “Dancing?” Baptist Trumpet, October 17, 1973, 6, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19731017.pdf.
19. Mike Huckabee, “Smoking?” Baptist Trumpet, October 24, 1973, 3, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19731024.pdf.
20. Mike Huckabee, “This week we’ll continue our rap on dating,” Baptist Trumpet, September 26, 1973, 5, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19730926.pdf.
21. Huckabee, “Dancing?”
22. Mike Huckabee, “Fence Straddling?” Baptist Trumpet, October 31, 1973, 8, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19731031.pdf.
23. Andrew Kaczynsk and Megan Apper, “Mike Huckabee on Old Anti-Dance Column: At Least I Wasn’t in the Choom Gang,” BuzzFeed News, February 5, 2015, http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/Mike-huckabee-on-old-anti-dance-column-at-least-i-wasnt-in-t#.bhnpEG8PG.
24. Dante Chinni, “The Presidential Age Game: What’s in a Number?” NBC News, February 8, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/presidential-age-game-whats-number-n302356.
25. “Fact Sheet: Induced Abortion in the United States,” Guttmacher Institute, July 2014, http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html.
Chapter 12: I Wish We’d All Been Ready
1. Hal Lindsey and Carole C. Carlson, The Late Great Planet Earth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970).
2. Dean A. Anderson, “The Original ‘Left Behind,’ ” http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/marchweb-only/originalleftbehind.html.
3. John J. Thompson, Raised by Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll (Toronto: ECW Press, 2000), 49.
4. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Simon Dunstan and Kevin Lyles, The Yom Kippur War 1973 (Oxford: Osprey, 2003), 21.
8. Thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), 261.
9. Huckabee, personal interview.
10. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
11. Borstelmann, The 1970s, 262.
12. Hilary Krieger, “Huckabee’s Visit to Yad Vashem Stirs Republicans,” Jerusalem Post, August 13, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/International/Huckabees-visit-to-Yad-Vashem-stirs-Republicans.
Chapter 13: Ouachita
1. Peter Baker, “From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment of the GOP Candidates,” Washington Post, October 10, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902064.html.
2. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
3. Randy Sims, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
4. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015. The comments that follow are from the same interview.
5. Huckabee, personal interview.
6. Ibid.
7. “Former Agent, Author to Speak,” Hope Star, September 10, 1975, 6.
8. Ibid.
9. Sims, personal interview.
10. “Hammerschmidt Appears to Be in for Tough Fight,” Hope Star, November 1, 1974, 7.
11. “In Clinton’s Race Against JPH, Campaign Spending Reflects Strong Challenge,” Northwest Arkansas Times, November 2, 1974, 14.
12. Mike Huckabee, “John Paul Hammerschmidt Was One of the True Pi
oneers of the Arkansas Republican Party,” Mike Huckabee’s Facebook page, April 1, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/Mikehuckabee/posts/10152892201042869.
13. Sims, personal interview.
14. Huckabee, personal interview.
15. Huckabee, Sims, and Lester Sitzes, personal interviews with the author, spring 2015.
16. Sims, personal interview.
17. Caldwell, personal interview.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
Chapter 14: I Walk the Line
1. Winston Churchill and Dominique Enright, The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill (London: Michael O’Mara, 2001), 104.
2. Lester Sitzes, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
3. Janet McCain Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
4. Ibid.
5. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
6. Mike Huckabee, “This week we’ll continue our rap on dating,” Baptist Trumpet, September 26, 1973, 5, http://baptisttrumpetarchives.spriggsone.com/main_includes/download_pdf_file.php?rf=19730926.pdf.
7. Rick Caldwell, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.
8. McCain Huckabee, personal interview.
9. Melinda Henneberger, “Shoots Bear, Submits to Husband: The Fascinating Marriage of Mike and Janet Huckabee,” Slate, January 29, 2008, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/first_mates/2008/01/shoots_bear_submits_to_husband.html.
10. Caldwell, personal interview.
11. “McCain–Huckabee Vows Said in Saturday Home Wedding,” Hope Star, June 3, 1974, 3.
12. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 41.
13. Sitzes, personal interview.
14. Huckabee, personal interview.
15. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 69.
16. J. Everett Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 12, 1990, 8–9.
17. Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime, 73.
18. Mike Huckabee, The President’s Corner, Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 26, 1990.
19. McCain Huckabee, personal interview.
20. Caldwell, personal interview.
Chapter 15: Born to Run
1. Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 180.
2. J. Everett Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 12, 1990, 8–9.
3. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015.
4. Ibid. See also Gregory Tomlin, “Seminary Days Provided Ark. Governor Opportunity for Christian Growth,” Baptist Press, May 6, 2003, http://www.bpnews.net/15859/seminary-days-provided-ark-governor-opportunity-for-christian-growth.
5. Huckabee, personal interview. The comments that follow are from this same interview.
6. Mike Huckabee, Living Beyond Your Lifetime: How to Be Intentional About the Legacy You Leave (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2000), 147.
7. Mike Huckabee and Janet McCain Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015. The comments that follow are also from this interview.
8. Tomlin, “Seminary Days Provided Ark. Governor Opportunity for Christian Growth.”
9. Ibid.
10. Jerome L. Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 125; Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), 368.
11. Huckabee, personal interview.
12. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (1976; repr. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008).
13. Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 124.
14. Huckabee, personal interview.
15. Ibid.
Chapter 16: Son of a Preacher Man
1. Carol Mason, Reading Appalachia from Left to Right: Conservatives and the 1974 Kanawha County Textbook Controversy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009), 44.
2. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail to the author, April 2015.
3. Charlie Warren, “Criswell Endorses Adrian Rogers for SBC Presidency,” Baptist Press, June 11, 1979, 4–5, http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4860,11-Jun-1979.PDF.
4. “About the Author,” James Robison website, accessed May 31, 2015, http://www.jamesrobison.net/about/.
5. The Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, 1st ed., s.v. “Robison, James.”
6. Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 182.
7. William Martin, “God’s Angry Man,” Texas Monthly, April 1981, 152, 154, 223; cited in ibid., 320.
8. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, April 2015. The remaining quotes in this section are also from this interview.
9. Jerome L. Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 116–17.
10. Williams, God’s Own Party, 140.
11. Ibid., 199–200.
12. Ibid., 183.
13. Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 112.
14. “Legal Fund Established for Evangelist Robison,” Irving Daily News (Irving, TX), March 22, 1979, 3.
15. Balmer, Redeemer, 112.
16. Deal W. Hudson, Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008), 13.
17. James Robison, “Freedom to Preach (part 1),” James Robison website, January 2, 2014, http://www.jamesrobison.net/freedom-to-preach/.
18. Ariel Levy, “Prodigal Son,” New Yorker, June 28, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/06/28/prodigal-son.
19. J. Brooks Flippen, Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011), 209.
20. Balmer, Redeemer, 112.
21. Ibid., 117.
22. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail.
23. The Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism, 1st ed., s.v. “Robison, James.”
24. Himmelstein, To the Right, 119.
25. Hudson, Onward, Christian Soldiers, 15.
Chapter 17: Revolution
1. David Flick, “Dallas-Fort Worth Heat Wave of 1980 Still Seared into Memories,” Dallas Morning News, November 26, 2010, http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20100806-Dallas-Fort-Worth -heat-wave-of-1868.ece.
2. Al Rossiter, Jr., “Heat Wave Cost 1,265 Deaths, Nearly $20 Billion,” UPI, October 16, 1980, http://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/16/Heat-wave-cost-1265-lives-nearly-20-billion/5386340516800/.
3. J. Brooks Flippen, Jimmy Carter, the Politics of Family, and the Rise of the Religious Right (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011).
4. Garry Clifford, “After Some On-the-Job Training with Wife Betty, Jim Guy Tucker Heads Up the Conference on Families,” People, January 7, 1980, http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,20075555,00.html.
5. “125,000 Sing, Pray in ‘Washington for Jesus Rally,’ ” Eugene Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 29, 1980, 2B.
6. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, fall 2014/spring 2015.
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sp; 7. Randall Balmer, Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 143.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. “Prophets and Advisors, 1979–1984,” With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, 1950–1994, episode 4, directed by Brad Lichtenstein (PBS Video, 1996), VHS.
11. Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), 393.
12. Deal W. Hudson, Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008), 14.
13. Steven P. Miller, The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
14. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail to the author, 2014.
15. Paul Pressler, A Hill on Which to Die: One Southern Baptist’s Journey (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999).
16. “Prophets and Advisors.”
17. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail to the author, June 2015.
18. Liz Clarke, “A Higher Power,” Washington Post, December 15, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401861.html.
19. Helen Parmley, “Religious Conservatives Launch Bid to Influence Presidential Politics,” Religious News Service, August 25, 1980.
20. Newsweek, September 15, 1980, http://backissues.com/issue/Newsweek-September-15-1980.
21. Dave Swanson, “49 Years Ago: John Lennon’s ‘Beatles More Popular Than Jesus’ Story Is Published,” March 4, 2015, http://ultimateclassicrock.com/john-lennon-beatles-more-popular-than-jesus/?trackback=tsmclip.
22. Though I do not agree with the thesis of the book, the facts of the crime scene are recounted in Fenton Bresler, Who Killed John Lennon? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989), 201.
23. Mike Huckabee, personal e-mail to the author, June 2015.
Chapter 18: A Pastor for All Seasons
1. J. Everett Sneed, “Reestablishing Trust,” Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, April 12, 1990, 8–9.
2. Mike Huckabee, personal interview with the author, spring 2015.