Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares - Lahr, Angela M. (Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Texas A a M University-Commerce)

An examination of the Americanization of Cold War evangelicalism, it argues that developments like the prospect of nuclear warfare and the creation of the state of Israel that appeared to be fulfilment of biblical prophecy accompanied by secular apocalypticism led to the evangelical subculture's expansion with the rise of the New Christian Right.