"The Family: Where Fundamentalism, Power and Politics Meet"

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They are The Family - fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the 'new chosen': congressmen, generals and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a 'leadership led by God', to be won not by force but through 'quiet diplomacy'. Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls. The Family is about this other half of American fundamentalist power - not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. In public, they host prayer breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of 'biblical capitalism', military might and a global American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin and Mao as leadership models, the Family's current leader, Doug Coe, declares, We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't. Part history, part investigative journalism, The Family is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power and the no-holds-barred economics of globalisation. No other book about the Right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of fundamentalism will be able to ignore.

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Author:   Jeff Sharlet
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
Imprint:   University of Queensland Press
Weight:   0.598kg
ISBN:  

9780702236945

ISBN 10:   0702236942
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   19 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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