[bksvol-discuss] Re: Notice: American Theocracy submitted today
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:26:38 -0700 (PDT)
Rik,
Someone is probably validating it, although no one has
posted here, and there is no official updated list. My
unofficial list is based on the original Marissa's
List with additions that people post here. I recorded
your posting of A.T. as being available for
validation, but, as I say, no one has posted here that
they've taken it. So many volunteers aren't on the
list, though. SInce you got the Thank You, I'd assume
that someone is validating it now.
Cindy
--- Rik James <d28rik@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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> submitted today
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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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