In 1970 Mark Hatfield delivered the commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary, the nation’s premier neo-evangelical seminary. The senator, “a verbal spellbinder,” dark and “too handsome, almost, for his own good,” according to political observers, cut quite a figure.
David R. Swartz
David R. Swartz is an assistant professor of history at Asbury University. His book, Left Behind: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism, is forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
