Jeff Sharlet
Auteur de The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
A propos de l'auteur
Jeff Sharlet is a visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, the coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha, and the editor of The Revealer.org. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Crédit image: Greg Martin
Œuvres de Jeff Sharlet
Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (2009) — Directeur de publication — 43 exemplaires
Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief (2014) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
An Anthropologist Finds Indians Lived in Less-Than-Perfect Harmony With Nature [periodical article] (1999) 1 exemplaire
Through a Glass Darkly, How the Christian Right is Reimagining US History (Harpers December 2006) 1 exemplaire
The Art of Racing in the Rain 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) — Contributeur — 82 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1972
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Professions
- journalist
- Relations
- Sharlet, Robert (father)
- Organisations
- Harper's Magazine
Rolling Stone
The Nation Institute
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Whew, boy. A strange and disturbing book, as befits its subject. "Christian" nationalism, the far right, guns, guns, guns, and so much more. Very, very, very dispiriting.
This was an excellently written book - one of the few non-fiction "page turners" that I've run across. The first three quarters is a tale of a cross country trip seeking the roots of our current political malaise, and it's filled with insights and horrors and intelligent musings, mostly tied together around the sad tale of Ashli Babbit. The last quarter is a second trip to Wisconsin, and it's here that the author pretty much loses it. It seems to me that here the author actively sought angst rather than recording and reporting it. For want of a better term, it's whiny. And the very last section tries to tie in the Old Left of the 50's to today's turmoil - for what reason I couldn't discern. This is a good book nonetheless, but it could've been a lot better - 5 stars easy if he hadn't lost his focus.… (plus d'informations)
A masterful labor of research and synthesis, this book is a comprehensive history of Evangelical Protestantism's influence in the United States government in the twentieth century. Those seeking to understand the persistent theocratic impulse in a government founded solidly on Enlightenment principles--and Mr. Sharlet does a particularly able job of sorting out the various strands of intellectual history in this area--will do well to start with this book.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 1,721
- Popularité
- #14,928
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 51
- ISBN
- 32
- Favoris
- 3
Most of the bible verse versions were excellent - I have a bias against Jonah - even as a child I could never get over fish, whale, eh, what's the difference. I _knew_ the difference, at eight. Revelations was weird, but how could it be otherwise. Our dual heretical guides come across as the young men they were.