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Part Two: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right

Behind the Bastards

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A Hero in Industries, Heroin Industries

Reagan backpedaled and announced that he was now seeking a congressional ban on tax exemptions for racially discriminatory schools. Jerry Falwell, however, was not the kind of guy to put all of his eggs in one basket. The Christian right came out the other side of the Reagan years deeply disappointed in conservative politics.

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