Title: Apocalypse Pretty Soon
Subtitle: Travels in End-Time America
First published: 1999
Description: The inspired madness of America's apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand.  Heard's enthusiasm led him on errands as diverse as being a voyeur at a Republic of Texas militia standoff, accompanying an expectant UFO "greeting party" to a remote field in Minnesota, and enacting the grief of the California quail at an ad-hoc therapy group for fierce environmentalists who believe the earth is an actual living entity that's preparing to kill off its human population--and soon...or at least pretty soon.
Subjects: Two thousand, A.D., Religion, Millennialism, United states, description and travel, United states, religion, 20th century, American essays, 20th century, Apocalyptic literature, New York Times reviewed
Places: United States
Time periods: 1960-
LC classification: BR526 .H335 1999