{"id":25672,"date":"2023-03-27T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25672"},"modified":"2023-03-27T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T05:13:15","slug":"book-the-family-the-secret-fundamentalism-at-the-heart-of-american-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/27\/book-the-family-the-secret-fundamentalism-at-the-heart-of-american-power\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTHE FAMILY: THE SECRET FUNDAMENTALISM AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN POWER\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Sharlet<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A journalist\u2019s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism\u2019s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They are the Family\u2014fundamentalism\u2019s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen\u2014congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a \u201cleadership led by God,\u201d to be won not by force but through \u201cquiet diplomacy.\u201d Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Family<\/em> is about the other half of American fundamentalist power\u2014not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a \u201cfamily\u201d that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of \u201cbiblical capitalism,\u201d military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, the Family\u2019s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, \u201cWe work with power where we can, build new power where we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharlet\u2019s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the cold war, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not \u201cWhat do fundamentalists want?\u201d but \u201cWhat have they already done?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part history, part investigative journalism, The Family<\/em> is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power, a story that stretches from the religious revivals that have shaken this nation from its beginning to fundamentalism\u2019s new frontiers. No other book about the right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of American fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Goodreas.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power Jeff Sharlet A journalist\u2019s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism\u2019s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. They are the Family\u2014fundamentalism\u2019s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[314,315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25673,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25672\/revisions\/25673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}