BOOK CLUB SUMMER: “American Theocracy”

CrispyQ

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:58 AM
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BOOK CLUB SUMMER: “American Theocracy”

"American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury"
by Kevin Phillips
Nominated by FLDem5

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003486X/sr=8-1/qid=1144700163/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5792740-7358366?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Due to the size & scope of this book we will take 2 or 3 months to discuss.

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BoneDaddy

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:55 AM
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1. Incredible book

reading it as we speak...getting into the religious portion. Just got done with the oil connection and history... Very very interesting and one of the best explanations of the connections between oil, religion and power.

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CrispyQ

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Thu Jun-01-06 10:24 AM
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2. Correction:

FLDem5 did not nominate this book, Crankie Avalon did.

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Kiouni

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Thu Aug-17-06 01:14 AM
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3. really good book

since most of the southern baptist revolution was before my time this was very infromative. I highly recommend it.

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