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  <title><![CDATA[American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of &lt;I&gt;American Dynasty&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/B&gt; &lt;P&gt; In his two most recent bestselling books, &lt;I&gt;American Dynasty&lt;/I&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Wealth and Democracy&lt;/I&gt;, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that rule&amp;#151;and imperil&amp;#151;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 current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and ballooning debt under the GOP majority. With an eye to the past and a searing vision of the future, Phillips confirms what too many Americans are still unwilling to admit about the depth of our misgovernment.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every so often I get the craving to read political texts. The problem with this urge is that I have no interest in picking up the edited transcript/ghost written crap put out by Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly, the frankly embarrassing Dinesh D’Souza, or the “Look at me! Look at me! Look at MEE...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22390938">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 21:10:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Originally, this book was intended more for self-education on U.S. oil policy under the current president and its potential influence on the 2008 presidential elections, rather than for specific cemetery research.  However, the author has built an historically informative and exhaustively researched...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20617089">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Phillips is a republican who served in the Nixon administration.  I am a life-long democrat; nevertheless, I enjoyed his measured comments when he spoke on Morning Edition on NPR.  Like many people, I found Mr. Bush to be a less than insightful president, so I thought that a book by Mr. Phillips...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48966284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44156053">
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 24 06:58:28 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[its incredible how accurately this book predicted the current economic realities we are currently experiencing , It was written over 3 years ago.  <br/>  This book makes credible arguments that oil and religion have been the focus of our politics at the cost to the american people.  I mean , we wen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44156053">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Done with the book, yet still digesting... Despite my anti-religious bent, I am not quite ready to take all of the authors views on religion at face-value... Does Tim LeHay really represent such a strong force in the emerging evangelical movement? Is the proportion of literalists really as dangerous...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16300367">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 14 21:17:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I really wanted to let this book help me make the argument that I (and a ton of other liberals) want to make: that George Bush the second is a religious freak who has his eyes on oil control and who manipulated the south and the general electorate through &quot;culture war&quot; to rig and ste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15465538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14120823">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 30 20:11:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phillips' articulates the concerns of many Americans that are troubled by the current blending of American religion and democracy.  He moves on to assess the dangers oil diplomacy and excessive national and household debt.  This book was written before the current home mortgage crises, but it clearl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14120823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25428558">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 25 10:16:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 25 10:20:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was given to me by my father.  It's filled with brilliant insights into the looming pressence of religion and oil in our government's practices and backed up by endless research and examples throughout history.  Bored me to tears, took me 2 months to read, and made me never want to read politic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25428558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62523908">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book suggests that the US will shortly lose its dominant world position and that fault for this can be laid at the feet of three culprits: the religious right, creditors, and Big Oil.  This is a well researched political treatise that no doubt touches on many truths, but is essentially a journa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62523908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77737928">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author employs his considerable knowledge of world and US historical events and draws parallels to recent American political trends to present a picture of a GOP that has been co-opted by the religious right. George Bush took this and ran with it, even implementing the end-times theories in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77737928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31512120">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tony]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an extremely researched book. This is avery good thing because it is well researched and there are so many interesting connections that are relevant to his thesis. Unfortunately there are so many that it was hard for even me to stay completely focused on all of them.<br/><br/>But here is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31512120">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some years ago I read Economy and Society written by Max Weber. It’s a masterpiece in History and Sociology. Weber analyses concepts such as :State, institution, religion, customs, Social dynamic, Economy, market and many other definitions since a scientific perspective. Weber encouraged to work o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27953717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author wrote &quot;the emerginf republican majority&quot; in 1963, or there abouts, and seem sto be a republican trying to redeem the name. The books traces out the paralell trajectories or other great world-dominating powers and how thier own demise was accompanied by amoung other things, two ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18075116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16557345">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mark]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phillips tries his best to put together three parts of a complex puzzle that (perhaps if we are honest with ourselves) we have all wondered about: oil, religion and the Republican party.  His book is chock full of information tying all three together.  The book is divided into three parts: 1. Oil an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16557345">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A somber, thoroughly researched and tightly reasoned, and sometimes angry indictment of the current administration's policies, and to lesser extents of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations, the fundamentalist religious subculture, and the financial and energy industries in America.<br/>The autho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15676618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   This is one of the must-read books for an explanation as to why the United States has become what it is during the last 40 years. With historical examples from past centuries, Phillips examines the Religious Right, the petroleum-industrial complex, and this country's massive federal, corporate, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15258255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[complicated subject matter. the book is overwritten in parts. finance is overwhelming on its own and finance with too many words added as filler is more so. much of what he talked about regarding finance in outline form did become problems in 2008 and 2009. the sections on religion and oil need more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63913131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent history of how religion got so entangled in American politics.  Phillips was a lawyer in the Nixon administration and tells a credible, insider story of how our separation of church and state has been hijacked by extremists and greed.  I saw him speak at a local church and he was believabl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70806016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, and incredibly well-researched explanation for why political dynasties exist even in democratic states--the rise of biblical literalism, environmental entitlement (if you truly believe the world is going to end in x number of years there's not exactly motivation to recycle), the squande...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15389271">more...</a>]]></body>
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