Shires Preston. Hippies of the Religious Right

From the Countercultures of Jerry Garcia to the Subculture of Jerry Falwell. — Waco, Texas, USA: Baylor University Press, 2006. — 275 p.This volume demonstrates that the Christian Right has a surprising past. Historical analysis reveals that the countercultural movements and evangelicalism share a common heritage. Shires warns that political operatives in both parties need to heed this fact if they hope to either, in the case of the Republican Party, retain their evangelical constituency, or, in the case of the Democratic Party, recruit new evangelical voters.