American Theocracy The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury

by Phillips, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780670034864
• ISBN10: 067003486X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-21
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Kevin Phillips has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades. A former White House strategist, he is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and NPR and writes for Harper’s and Time. His books include New York Times bestsellers The Politics of Rich and Poor and Wealth and Democracy.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I: OIL AND AMERICAN SUPREMACY
Fuel and National Power	3	(28)
The Politics of American Oil Dependence	31	(37)
Trumpets of Democracy, Drums of Gasoline	68	(31)
PART II: TOO MANY PREACHERS
Radicalized Religion: As American as Apple Pie	99	(33)
Defeat and Resurrection: The Southernization of America	132	(39)
The United States in a Dixie Cup: The New Religious and Political Battlegrounds	171	(47)
Church, State, and National Decline	218	(47)
PART III: BORROWED PROSPERITY
Soaring Debt, Uncertain Politics, and the Financialization of the United States	265	(33)
Debt: History's Unlearned Lesson	298	(21)
Serial Bubbles and Foreign Debt Holders: American Embarrassment and Asian Opportunity	319	(28)
The Erring Republican Majority	347	(41)
Afterword: The Changing Republican Presidential Coalition	388	(7)
Acknowledgments	395	(2)
Notes	397	(34)
Index	431