The Best Telling of the Story of the past writes George Marsden relies on a balance of the general and the particular. In this book a sequel and companion to his widely acclaimed Fundamentalism and American Culture Marsden uses the history of Fuller Theological Seminary a durable evangelical institution as a lens through which to focus an examination of the broader story of evangelicalism and fundamentalism since the 1940s. In fact at the time of the school's founding in1947 evangelicalism and fundamentalism were not considered separate entities. Though Fuller Seminary later became so thoroughly identified with the new evangelicalism (or neo-evangelicalism) that its fundamentalist roots are sometimes overlooked in the school's early years it was in striking ways a fundamentalist institutions with a thoroughly fundamentalist constituency.