The family
Subtitle: the secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power
By: Jeff Sharlet
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780060560058
Subjects: Religious right; Fundamentalism; Christian conservatism; Christianity and international affairs; Church and state; Christianity and politics
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-432) and index.
Table of contents: title: Awakenings. Ivanwald ; Experimental religion ; Revival machine; title: Jesus plus nothing. Unit number one ; The F word ; The ministry of proper enlightenment ; The blob ; Vietnamization ; Jesus +0 = X ; Interesting blood; title: The popular front. What everybody wants ; The romance of American fundamentalism ; Unschooling ; This is not the end.