Few people in the UK really understand what it is that drives the US Administration and the Bush Presidency. Michael Northcott is one of those, and his expose of the evangelical fundamentalism and neo-conservative ideology that underpins the Republican Party today is masterly - and deeply disturbing. "An Angel Directs the Storm" is an outstanding piece of scholarly insightful polemic from which we all have a lot to learn." Jonathan Porritt "I would hope that this book will be read widely in both Great Britain and America. It shows with skill and perspicuity that the nature of the US reaction...
Few people in the UK really understand what it is that drives the US Administration and the Bush Presidency. Michael Northcott is one of those, and hi...
This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism. It shows that behind the neo-imperialism of the White House and George W. Bush lies an apocalyptic vision of the United States's sacred destiny ""at the end of history,"" a vision that is shared by millions of Americans. The authors trace the roots of American apocalyptic to Puritan Millennialism and contemporary fundamentalist readings of the Book of Revelation. They suggest that Americans urgently need to recover a critique of Empire of the kind espoused by...
This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism. It shows that ...
