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American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America (Hardcover)
by Chris Hedges (Author)

http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284437/re
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Book Description
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists
first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would
build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic
rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but
poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In
American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the
National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,
challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its
core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for
the open society.

Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father
was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the
Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and
members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval
ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as
one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American
government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between
church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not
conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of
millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations,
as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The
movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on
dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new,
frightening America.

American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as
pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the
movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological
underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young
fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that
often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were
willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The
Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call
for dictatorship, nor does it use

physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet
revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is
being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever
pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more
national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make
a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a
crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly
are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned
warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers
liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.