The Undertow
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
An Instant New York Times Bestseller. One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart.
Jeff Sharlet Livres
Cet auteur explore les questions complexes du pouvoir américain et du fondamentalisme, perçant souvent le voile des structures cachées qui façonnent la société. Par ses contributions à des publications prestigieuses comme Harper's et Rolling Stone, ainsi qu'à des médias plus spécialisés, il démontre une curiosité étendue pour la politique, la religion et la presse. Son approche est profondément analytique, visant à découvrir les forces invisibles qui définissent les dynamiques de pouvoir de l'Amérique. Cet engagement à révéler des vérités et à disséquer des phénomènes complexes en fait une voix significative dans la non-fiction contemporaine.
The Family
The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
"They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel milions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organization in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply beilievers. Behind the scenes at every National Prayer Breakfast since 1953 has been the Family, an elite network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful. Their goal is 'Jesus plus nothing.' Their method is backroom diplomacy." -- Cover, p.4.
Linked narrative nonfiction from the best-selling author of The Family. No one explores the borderlands of belief and skepticism quite like Jeff Sharlet. He is ingenious, farsighted, and able to excavate the worlds of others, even the flakiest and most fanatical, with uncanny sympathy. Here, he reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of "Sweet Fuck All, Colorado" or in a midnight congregation of urban anarchists celebrating a victory over police. From Dr. Cornel West to legendary banjo player Dock Boggs, from the youth evangelist Ron Luce to America's largest "Mind, Body, Spirit Expo," Sharlet profiles religious radicals, realists, and escapists. Including extended journeys published here for the first time, Sweet Heaven When I Die offers a portrait of our spiritual landscape that calls to mind Joan Didion's classic Slouching Towards Bethlehem.