Screen LibraryAmerican theocracy：the peril and politics of radical religion, oil, and borrowed money in the 21st century
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Viking,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xvi, 462 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
067003486X 9780670034864 |
| Index Number: | D771 |
| CLC: | D771.20 |
| Call Number: | D771.20/P561 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-430) and index. Fuel and national power -- The politics of American oil dependence -- Trumpets of democracy, drums of gasoline -- Radicalized religion : as American as apple pie -- Defeat and resurrection : the southernization of America -- The United States in a Dixie cup : the new religious and political battlegrounds -- Church, state, and national decline -- Soaring debt, uncertain politics, and the financialization of the United States -- Debt : history's unlearned lesson -- Serial bubbles and foreign debt holders : American embarrassment and Asian opportunity -- The erring Republican majority -- Afterw Former Republican strategist Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to the brink of disaster. From Ancient Rome to the British Empire, Phillips demonstrates that every world-dominating power has been brought down by a related set of causes: a lethal combination of global over-reach, militant religion, resource problems, and ballooning debt. It is this same axis of ills that has come to define America's political and economic identity in the past decade. Military miscalculations in the Middle East, the surge of fundam |