| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Lutherans and the Longest War: Adrift on a Sea of Doubt about the Cold and Vietnam Wars, 1964–1975. By David E. Settje. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. x, 221 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-1531-2. Paper, $25.95, ISBN 978-0-7391-1532-9.)

In this summary of Lutheran political thought on the Cold War and Vietnam conflicts, David E. Settje explores the shades of "conservative," "moderate," and "liberal" positions taken by U.S. Lutherans in these years. Arguing that an examination of Lutheran opinion offers insights into the thinking of "average" Americans from 1964–1975, Settje laboriously maps out the nuances of the Lutheran debate on the war, as expressed in such sources as church publications, letters of lay support and opposition to church leaders, and in the papers of Lutheran leaders from the era (though the author curiously did not choose to augment the written record by any interviews of such leaders). While Settje presents Lutheran opinion in painstaking detail, in the end one wishes for less description of Lutheran arguments and more analysis of them.

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