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The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby
Inside a Billionaire Family's Quest to Craft a Christian Nation
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- On Sale
- Jul 14, 2026
- Page Count
- 384 pages
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-13
- 9781541703940
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$32.00Price
$42.00 CADFormat
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“Blanding’s gripping narrative exposes the damage that has been wrought by a single family devoted to both God and profit.” —Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
Hobby Lobby is a multibillion-dollar craft store chain with more than a thousand US locations, founded and owned by the Greens—an evangelical Christian family committed to establishing the Bible as the ultimate authority behind our laws and society.
In The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby, Michael Blanding reveals how the Greens have quietly yet effectively used their vast wealth to spread their beliefs throughout the US and beyond. They have run expensive, wide-reaching ad campaigns to inculcate biblical values and have propped up evangelical education through donations of money and land. They successfully fought a Supreme Court case to deny their employees insurance coverage for contraception and funneled millions of dollars to organizations working to overturn Roe v. Wade and to undermine LGBTQ rights. And, for their multimillion-dollar Museum of the Bible just blocks from the US Capitol building, they’ve acquired looted, stolen, and forged biblical antiquities from the Middle East. In a riveting exposé, Blanding traces the Greens’ efforts to sell their evangelical mission.
Captivating and disturbing, The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby exposes the pivotal role the Green family has played in funding and empowering America’s dangerous, ascendant Christian nationalist movement.
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“Michael Blanding’s The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby documents how one family transformed a modest retail business into one of the most powerful—and insidious—forces in America. He shows how they used their growing wealth to advance a Christian nationalist agenda. A tale of extremism, carelessness, greed, and hypocrisy, Blanding’s gripping narrative exposes the damage that has been wrought by a single family devoted to both God and profit.”Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
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“The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby is a devastating exposé of the Green family, funders of Christian nationalism in the United States. This book will lift the veil from the eyes of those who have bought into the billionaire family’s broken ideology.”Andrew L. Seidel, author of The Founding Myth
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“Michael Blanding’s The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby reads like a thriller about greed, grift, and God—yet every word is true. Blanding pairs dogged investigative reporting with a storyteller’s eye for detail, to construct the riveting account of a powerful family that has remade our nation. No book has taught me more about who America is today and the forces that delivered us here.”Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body
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“Christian nationalism is not a grassroots movement; it’s a top-down movement led by billionaires and the religious activists who enjoy their patronage. As Michael Blanding shows us, the Green family of Hobby Lobby has been instrumental in spreading more than kitschy home decor—they have carried out an integrated campaign to make America Christian again. For Americans passionate about true religious liberty—including liberty from religion—this is a must read.”Samuel L. Perry, coauthor of The Flag and the Cross
