[bksvol-discuss] Re: Notice: American Theocracy submitted today
- From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 18:14:51 -0600
Did somebody download American Theocracy already?
I didn't get around to check about the success of the upload to the Step 1
page.
I did get the successful "thank you" page.
So I'm assuming that someone already grabbed it.
But just in case, I can re-submit, if it is not on the "being validated"
list.
Thanks.
Rik
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The following was submitted to Bookshare today, May 2.
Submitted in .RTF format (produced using OpenBook 7.02)
I put my contact email in comment section should validator find that more
info is needed.
TITLE:
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and
Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
AUTHOR: Kevin Phillips
ISBN 0-670-03486-X hardcover, Viking
copyright 2006
462 pp. (Extensive notes and index. Last chapter ends on page 392)
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The former Republican strategist offers a critical and extensively
researched analysis of the current political condition as shaped by the
?Republican Majority? and the alarming future it poses.
DESCRIPTION (from the inner book jacket)
In his two most recent books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy,
Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and
economic forces that rule?and imperil?the United States, tracing the ever
more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority's rise to power. Now
Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the newest stage of the GOP
majority: an inept and weakly led coalition, dominated by religious
zealotry, that is losing America the world's respect-and endangering her
future.
From ancient Rome to the British Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every
world-dominating power has been brought down by an overlapping set of
problems: a foolish combination of global overreach, militant religion,
diminishing resources, and ballooning debt. It is exactly this nexus of ills
that has come to define America's political and economic identity at the
start of this century. Matching his command of history with a penetrating
analysis of contemporary politics, Phillips surveys a century of foreign
policy and wars in the Middle East, showing how all, to one degree or
another, reflected our ever-growing preoccupation with oil. Today, that
dangerous inheritance includes clumsy military miscalculations, the ruinous
occupation of Iraq, and sky-high oil prices.
He then turns to the surge of fundamentalist and evangelical religion in the
United States, outlining the way a long tradition of radical and sectarian
religion has taken an unprecedented political role under George W. Bush, as
more and more Republicans think in apocalyptic terms and seek to shape
domestic and foreign policy around religion. Finally, he documents how Wall
Street and the business interests so closely allied with Washington have
discarded the principles of sound finance that once characterized Republican
fiscal policy and have literally mortgaged the country's economic health to
financial speculation, accompanied by an unprecedented level of public and
private debt.
Oil, religion, and finance are not new elements in U.S. politics, but as
Phillips makes clear with his formidable command of fact, figure, and
history, and his long experience as a political strategist and observer, we
are now in new and dangerous territory. The Bush coalition has resulted in a
dearth of candor and serious strategy-a paralysis of policy and a government
unable to govern. If left unchecked, the same forces will bring a
preacherridden, debt-bloated, energy-crippled America to its knees. With an
eye on the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what
too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our
misgovernment.
If you have read all that and want to read more here, here are some related
online places to go and learn more:
There is a section of the Preface and reviews at:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0603/S00296.htm
KEVIN PHILLIPS & AMY GOODMAN
March 21, 2006 interview on Democracy Now
Page with download of show at:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/1418243
Transcript (printer friendly) (March 21, 2006)
URL: http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=06/03/21/1418243
BILL MOYERS 7 KEVIN PHILLIPS: There is a full transcript of an interview of
author Kevin Phillips with PBS? NOW host Bill Moyers from April 9, 2004 at
this URL:
PRINTABBLE TRANSCRIPT:
http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript_phillips_print.html
OR
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_phillips.html
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