[Vision2020] Book Recommendation/Request

[Tom Hansen]

I have just finished browsing an extremely abridged version of a book that
I find to be revealing and very thought-provoking.

"The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" By
Jeff Sharlet

>From the book's introduction:

"The Avant-Garde of American Fundamentalism

This is how they pray: A dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned 'brothers'
gather in a huddle, arms crossing arms over shoulders like the weave of a
cable, leaning in on one another and swaying like the long grass up the
hill from the house they share, a handsome, gray, two-story colonial that
smells of new carpet, Pine-Sol, and aftershave.  It is decorated with
lithographs of foxhunters and pictures of Jesus, and, in the bunk room, a
drawing of a 'C-4' machine gun given to them by their six-year-old
neighbor.  The men who live there call the house Ivanwald.  At the end of
a tree-lined cul-de-sac in Arlington, Virginia, quiet but for the buzz of
lawn mowers and kids playing tag in the park across the road, Ivanwald is
one house among many, clustered like mushrooms, nearly two dozen
households devoted, like these men, to the service of a personal Jesus, a
Christ who directs their every action.  The men tend every tulip in the
cul-de-sac, trim every magnolia, seal every driveway smooth and black as
boot leather.  Assembled at the dining table or on their lawn or in the
hallway or in the bunk room or on the basketball court, they also pray,
each man's head bowed in humility and swollen with pride (secretly, he
thinks) at being counted among the select corps for Christ, men to whom He
will open his heart and whom He will remember when he returns to the world
not born-again but remade, no longer an individual, but part of the Lord's
revolution, His will transformed into a weapon for what the young men call
'spiritual war'."

I could purchase it through Amazon at:

http://tinyurl.com/mfhky6

But, I prefer buying this book locally (ya listenin', BookPeople).

Does anybody know where this book is available locally?

Thanks,

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails."

- Unknown