[Vision2020] Book Recommendation/Request

[Ted Moffett]

This past week, the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC featured a piece on "The
Family," as you describe it... I can't but wonder if you saw this broadcast,
or just coincidentally mentioned this subject/book this week:

It's already on YouTube, I guess:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dox4jdW4UyQ

Ted Moffett
On 7/10/09, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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