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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on Americaby Chris HedgesISBN 0743284437 (0-7432-8443-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America'Book summary: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 National Book Award finalist "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, " challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.
"American Fascists, " which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use
physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant. [via]
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin PhillipsISBN 0143038281 (0-14-303828-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century'Book summary:An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty[via]In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleand imperilthe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majoritys rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.
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- American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century: ISBN 067003486X (0-670-03486-X)
Hardcover, Viking Pr - American Theocracy: The Peril And Politics of Radical Religion, Oil And Borrowed Money in the 21st Century: ISBN 0786286938 (0-7862-8693-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century: ISBN 0143038281 (0-14-303828-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century: ISBN 067003486X (0-670-03486-X)
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Ape and Essenceby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0929587782 (0-929587-78-2)
Softcover, Ivan R Dee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ape and Essence'Book summary:When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life. "It was inevitable that Mr. Huxley should have written this book: one could almost have seen it since Hiroshima is the necessary sequel to Brave New World."-Alfred Kazin. "The book has a certain awesome impressiveness; its sheer intractable bitterness cannot but affect the reader."-Time. [via]
Being Christian in an Almost Chosen Nation: Thinking About Faith And Politicsby H. Stephen ShoemakerISBN 0687334233 (0-687-33423-3)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracyby Frederick ClarksonISBN 1567510884 (1-56751-088-4)
Softcover, Common Courage Pr
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Fitzpatrick's Warby Theodore JudsonISBN 0756402719 (0-7564-0271-9)
Softcover, Daw Books
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Fooled Againby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0465045790 (0-465-04579-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reformby Mark Crispin MillerISBN 0465045804 (0-465-04580-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle Eastby Judith MillerISBN 0684832283 (0-684-83228-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Has Ninety-Nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East'Book summary:A comprehensive survey of militant Islam, or Islamism, from Judith Miller, former bureau chief for The New York Times in Cairo. She covers eight Arab countries, plus Iran and Israel, in providing a complete, if bleak, picture for Western readers: from poverty-stricken Egypt to rich Saudi Arabia, she believes Islamists are threatening Middle Eastern stability. Whether floundering under incompetent government, corruption, and repression, or, as in the case of Jordan, too dependent on one ruler, the states close to the West are weak, and vulnerable to a movement that promises social justice and moral righteousness. Miller is forthright in her condemnation of the intolerance and sexism of Islamic movements she sees as largely antithetical to Western democracy. A provocative and daring book. [via]
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodISBN 038549081X (0-385-49081-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood has played with different literary genres in her novels--historical fiction (Alias Grace), pulp fiction (The Blind Assassin), the comedy of manners (The Robber Bride)--but no foray into genre fiction has been as successful as her turn to speculative fiction in The Handmaid's Tale. Published in 1985, it echoes Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, but a vibrant feminism drives Atwood's portrait of a futuristic dystopia. In the Republic of Gilead, we see a world devastated by toxic chemicals and nuclear fallout and dominated by a repressive Christian fundamentalism. The birthrate has plunged, and most women can no longer bear children. Offred is one of Gilead's Handmaids, who as official breeders are among the chosen few who can still become pregnant.
The Handmaid's Tale is an imaginatively audacious novel that is at once a page-turning psychological thriller, a moving love story, and a chilling warning about what might be waiting for us around the corner. What ultimately makes it stand out is Atwood's ability to balance a passionate political statement with finely wrought literary fiction. The Handmaid's Tale is a remarkable work by one of Canada's most inventive writers. --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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- The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0307264602 (0-307-26460-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0808598295 (0-8085-9829-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0449212602 (0-449-21260-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0449911535 (0-449-91153-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0816141711 (0-8161-4171-1)
Softcover, G K Hall & Co - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0395404258 (0-395-40425-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0771008139 (0-7710-0813-9)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 081614172X (0-8161-4172-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 038549081X (0-385-49081-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- The Handmaid's Tale: ISBN 0770428207 (0-7704-2820-7)
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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalismby Michelle GoldbergISBN 0393329763 (0-393-32976-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism'Book summary:"A potent wakeup call to pluralists in the coming showdown with Christian nationalists."Publishers Weekly, starred review
Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the foundations of democracy.
In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country's social problems.
With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America. [via]More editions of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism:
Law And the Sacredby Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill UmphreyISBN 0804755752 (0-8047-5575-2)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Harold BloomISBN 0791075699 (0-7910-7569-9)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from The Handmaid's Tale to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story," which details the conditions under which The Handmaid's Tale was written. This title also includes a short biography on Margaret Atwood and a descriptive list of characters. [via]
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Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 079105926X (0-7910-5926-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Margaret Atwood's the Handmaid's Tale'Book summary:Atwood's best-known novel depicts one woman's struggle to survive in a futuristic society in which women have become property.
The title, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Margaret Atwood, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Off Armageddon Reefby David WeberISBN 0765315009 (0-7653-1500-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hatedby Gore VidalISBN 156025405X (1-56025-405-X)
Softcover, Nation Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated'Book summary:The United States has been engaged in what the great historian Charles A. Beard called "perpetual war for perpetual peace." The Federation of American Scientists has cataloged nearly 200 military incursions since 1945 in which the United States has been the aggressor. In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose centerpiece is a commentary on the events of September 11, 2001 (deemed too controversial to publish in this country until now) Gore Vidal challenges the comforting consensus following September 11th and goes back and draws connections to Timothy McVeigh's bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. He asks were these simply the acts of "evil-doers?" "Gore Vidal is the master essayist of our age." Washington Post "Our greatest living man of letters."Boston Globe "Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe."Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books[via]More editions of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated:
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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novelby Robert FerrignoISBN 141650768X (1-4165-0768-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel'Book summary:What would happen to America if the extremists won?
SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will.
Courageous rebel Sarah Dougan is a beautiful historian who uncovers information that will destabilize the nation. When she disappears, the security chief of the Islamic Republic of America calls upon Rakkim Epps, her secret lover and a former elite warrior, to find her. But Rakkim is being tracked by Darwin, a brilliant psychopath. To survive, he must become Darwin's assassin and embark upon a frenetic and bloody chase to find Sarah and helpher expose a shocking truth to the world.
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Psalms of Herodby Esther FreisnerISBN 1565049160 (1-56504-916-0)
Softcover, Psi
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 081297106X (0-8129-7106-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Revolt in 2100by Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0671655892 (0-671-65589-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sword of Maryby Esther FriesnerISBN 1565049365 (1-56504-936-5)
Softcover, Psi
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When Religion Becomes Evilby Charles KimballISBN 0060506539 (0-06-050653-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signsby Charles KimballISBN 0060556102 (0-06-055610-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Leer 'Lolita' En Teheran / Reading Lolita In Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8476696310 (84-7669-631-0)
Softcover, Oceano De Mexico
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Leer Lolita En Teheranby Azar NafisiISBN 8496333159 (84-96333-15-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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