Eminent Betrayal by Mark Tooley

Eminent Betrayal

Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
Simon & Schuster, 2005
(224 pages, $25.00, hardcover)

reviewed by Mark Tooley

I will deliberately mix religion and politics,” declares Jimmy Carter in his latest book, Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis. Most reviews have focused on the book’s politics, which promotes standard Democratic policies. But its religious element is more revealing.

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Mark Tooley directs the United Methodist committee of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (www.ird-renew.org) in Washington, D.C.

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