The religious right, we hear so much regarding its influence on the contemporary GOP, but we are rarely told about where its origins are, how it came to posess such power, and most importantly what their ideology is trying to achieve.
This book does a good job of answering these questions. It isthe author’s first book, and as such, is a bit rough around the edges. The writing is for the most part, tight, and although the author’s liberal bias does come through from time to time, this is hardly a fatal flaw as it is a book on current affairs, and not a scholarly treatise.
What this book does best is to give an overview of the history, ideology, and goals of the Religious Right, from the nascent origins in the early 20th Century through the Moral Majority of the post-Nixon years into the political powerhouse we see today.
In short: a very good book about an ideology we don’t know enough about, that could grow to threaten the foundations of the American experiment.