The Family : The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

from Judiex

Several times while I was reading THE FAMILY, I wondered if Jeff Sharlet was paranoid. I've felt the increased influence of the Christian Fundamentalist movement on the United States but had never thought it was as wide-spread as he proclaimed, with active cells reaching into all three branches o...

from kraaivrouw

To begin with let's stipulate that Jeff Sharlet has an agenda, but so do most writers of political analysis. Like it or not, the political is as much personal as vice versa & we've all got an ax to grind. Having said that this is a wonderfully well-written book & I enjoyed it immensely despite th...

from kraaivrouw

To begin with let's stipulate that Jeff Sharlet has an agenda, but so do most writers of political analysis. Like it or not, the political is as much personal as vice versa & we've all got an ax to grind. Having said that this is a wonderfully well-written book & I enjoyed it immensely despite th...

from kukulaj

This was a very difficult book for me. I don't doubt the facts it presents. One thing I have seen in my life - people who actually believe that rich people are somehow better, rich people know what is right. I have seen this in people who have little money, who have a comfortable amount of money,...

from criddick

This is a scary book when you really think about what the author has researched and presented to us. The most important point I took from the reading was that there is a well-hidden movement within the Christian fundamentalists that has positioned itself to influence the government of this and ot...