This book provides the most thorough examination ever written of Mormons' place in the American political landscape.

David E. Campbell is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He is the coauthor (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which received both the 2011 Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association and the Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council for the best nonfiction book of 2010. He is also the author of Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life.

Part I. Mormons as an Ethno-Religious Group: 1. Meet the Mormons; 2. The sacred tabernacle: Mormons as an ethno-religious group; 3. A peculiar people? Mormon religious distinctiveness; Part II. Political Behavior of Mormons: 4. Mormon political views: cohesive, republican, and conservative; 5. A politically peculiar people; 6. Following the leader: Mormons' responsiveness to church leaders; Part III. The Consequences of Distinctiveness: 7. Assessing the saints: how Americans view Mormons; 8. A stained glass ceiling? Mormon candidates and presidential campaigns; 9. How Mormonism affected Mitt, how Mitt has affected Mormonism; 10. Conclusion: seeking the promised land.