About this title: From the celebrated author of "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" comes a startling expos of the political ambitions of the Christian Right--a clarion call for everyone who cares about freedom.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780224078207ISBN:0224078208
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN-13:9780743284462ISBN:0743284461
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Date Published: 01/02/2007
ISBN-13:9780224078207ISBN:0224078208
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780743284431ISBN:0743284437
Description: As New in As New dust jacket. 0743284437. Looks new. Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the ... read more
"this book is well-written, interesting and inciteful. chris hedges approaches the topic (the extreme Christian right) as a journalist and it reads like an ethnography. he explores the change of focus from personal salvation towards consolidating political power. most interesting to me was his detail on paul crouch and the appeal/influence of the trinity broadcasting network and also the detailed "trainings" on conversion that happen at church conventions.
his conclusion? that we need to focus on learning the vocabulary of the extreme christian right and make sure to focus on self-reflection and questioning over blind acceptance of "rules" dictated to us. he says it perfectly by referencing huck finn's decision about whether or not to turn in jim. jim searches within and after reflection decides to choose humanity over a false moral code saying, "all right, then, i'll go to hell...""
"Note: the author is a Christian...bear that in mind when you read this. Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we were his age-(he was then close to 80)-we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists." The warning, given to me nearly 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of leaders in the Christian Right who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors in America had found a mask for fascism in patriotism and the pages of the Bible. (from book jacket)"
"Chris Hedges identifies in American dominionism and its gospel of wealth a potential fascism. The book certainly held my attention, though it felt a bit alarmist. A friend of mine put it well: Hedges overstates his case at times. He indulges in dramatics to emphasize his point, though I believe he does so honestly. There's a certain irony to that since he critiques fundamentalist charasmatics at least in part for their anti-intellectualism, and here he's engaging in some quasi-hysterics himself.
That's not to deny the potential danger of a movement of ditto-heads engaged in magical thinking. It's just that, although he denies it in a couple sentences towards the end of the book, Hedges seems to be predicting exactly what fascism awaits us.
Nonetheless, it is an intriguing look into dominionism and how it interacts with American capitalism."
"A fantastic book I recommend to my friends. Though I'd like to say that what Chris Hedges rightly perceives happening on the "far-right" is also occurring on the "far-left," just implemented in a different manner replacing religious indoctrination with a glorification of all that is scientific, particularly psychology and the convergence of the mental health profession with government programs. But that's beyond the scope of this book. This is specifically about the Christian Right's influence on politics and the social sphere, painting a clear picture of why extremes deserve to be avoided and how the common folk are manipulated using their tribulations as a means to exploit them in the name of "God." But God has nothing to do with it. It's about money, power, and political influence with the goal of settling for nothing less than a tyrannical American theocracy. A very good read."
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