Back Bay Readers' Pick C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, (Paperback)

from metamariposa

"C Street" is the sequel (of sorts) to the 2008 book "The Family." Jeff Sharlet's investigative journalism is top-notch, and I was horrified by the many instances of corrupt disregard for human life explained both in this book and its predecessor. Here, he chronicles involvement of The Family (a ...

from Sullywriter

This follow-up to The Family (2009) is an equally disturbing look at the entrenchment of extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalism in Congress, the military, and corporate America. The so-called "Christianity" of The Family, however, is little more than American exceptionalism, imperialistic hu...

from Devil_llama

Sharlet's follow up to The Family doesn't seem as hard-hitting in some ways, perhaps because it's slightly less personal, or maybe because it's a follow up, which makes it a bit less dramatic. In spite of that, the snappy writing style and the personal interviews with key people keep the story mo...

from Narboink

As someone who has been pretty diligent about reading Jeff Sharlet's work over the years, I was a little disappointed in this follow-up to "The Family." In it's defense, it is a follow-up and not the main course. Sharlet spends a considerable amount of time restating his previously published rese...

from Narboink

As someone who has been pretty diligent about reading Jeff Sharlet's work over the years, I was a little disappointed in this follow-up to "The Family." In it's defense, it is a follow-up and not the main course. Sharlet spends a considerable amount of time restating his previously published rese...