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Review of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by A Reader
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-17 03:52:20.
(Language: English)
 
Mind-blowing in its implications for what many of us thought was OUR democracy, however tenuous that might have been. Jeff Sharlet's impeccable research is extremely sobering in its analysis of a movement underneath our noses for centuries, but cloaked in the guise of anti-Communism and freedom around the world. The first book I've ever read leaving me with a feeling of despair because I don't see how to extract this cancer on our Republic. Just as Naomi Klein's modern classic The Shock Doctrine erased any naive notion I had concerning the myth of the "free market", Mr. Sharlet's book forces you to toss everything you may have naively thought out the window about our nation's shaky affair with fundamentalism and that movement's influence on our history. Perhaps the one uplifting notion that I carried away from reading this book is that it will take people from all different creeds and backgrounds working together to counteract this dangerous elite fundamentalism.
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