Matthew's review
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
AMERICAN FASCISTS is pretty interesting (and blood-boiling) through its stretches of matter-of-fact reporting on the many Bible-addled lunatics and charlatans with whom America is afflicted. There's good stuff in here about the origins of Dominionism, Creationist museums, the NRB convention, anti-gay activists and their weird conversion therapies... all as fascinating as it is infuriating for any reader with an attachment to reality-based reasoning. Less interesting are the more abstract passages generalizing about the nature of totalitarianism. That kind of thing takes up a disappointingly large share of the book.
