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I liked Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium. He traces the evolution of the Gospels, de-emphasizing Jesus' apocalyptic message in the later Gospels, when the expected Second Coming and the Kingdom of God didn't materialize.
Eschatology, theological beliefs regarding End Times in whatever form, is not exactly new in Christendom. The Rapture is the most common modern formulation of the belief, but The End has been pretty nigh for a couple thousand years.
In either case, the book I recommended lists more sources, and goes into more depth about what Evangelicals and other rapture-believing Christians say they believe. Whether their beliefs are "really" Christian or not is a matter of opinion, but I don't delve into saying who isn't "really" Christian. If they identify as Christian and believe that the Rapture is immanent, to me that counts. And as best we can tell, there are tens of millions of Americans who believe this. Among Evangelicals in particular, it is entirely mainstream.