THE FAMILY: THE SECRET FUNDAMENTALISM AT THE HEART OF AMERICAN POWER

Book ID/图书代码： 00500008B19992

English Summary/英文概要： A journalist’s penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism’s most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful
They are the Family—fundamentalism’s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the new chosen—congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential cells, to pray and plan for a "leadership led by God," to be won not by force but through "quiet diplomacy." Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside its walls.
The Family is about the other half of American fundamentalist power—not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the far right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public, they host Prayer Breakfasts; in private, they preach a gospel of "biblical capitalism," military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao as leadership models, the Family’s current leader, Doug Coe, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can’t."
Sharlet’s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the cold war, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?"
Part history, part investigative journalism, The Family is a compelling account of how fundamentalism came to be interwoven with American power, a story that stretches from the religious revivals that have shaken this nation from its beginning to fundamentalism’s new frontiers. No other book about the right has exposed the Family or revealed its far-reaching impact on democracy, and no future reckoning of American fundamentalism will be able to ignore it.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 宗教研究 暢銷經典

本書作者以一個新聞工作者的敏銳洞察，深入到這個鮮為人知、自詡擁有強大暗藏網路勢力的基督教組織內部。他們是原教旨主義的先鋒，正在掀起一輪美國乃至全球範圍內的心靈之戰。他們認為自己是經過層層選拔的精兵良將，祈禱並著手打造一個“上帝旨意下的領導團隊”，通過靜默外交而不是依靠武力來取得勝利。基地設在維尼尼亞阿靈頓，綠樹掩映，芳草疊翠，俯瞰波托馬克河。傑夫.沙利特是唯一一位元將此神秘基地的資訊傳達給世界的新聞記者。

“家族”是美國原教旨主義力量的另一部分—不是歇斯底里的憤怒群眾，而是成熟老練的精銳力量。沙利特追溯到亞伯拉罕，一個移民傳教士，于1935年成立了小規模的支援歐洲法西斯主義的商人組織，實行信仰專制，圍繞這一核心，亞伯拉罕建立了一個國際範圍內的網路組織，此家庭根深葉茂發展至今。公共場合，他們舉辦早餐禱告；內部聚會，就鼓吹聖經資本主義，軍事實力和美國帝國。

沙利特的發現極大得挑戰了美國原教旨主義的傳統智慧，並揭示了他們在破壞新政（New Deal）、發動冷戰以及無限制全球自由經濟方面所起的決定性作用。沙利特認為，我們要問的問題，不應是“他們想要什麼”，而是“他們曾經做過什麼”。(Claire)

Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers Weekly
Checking in on a friend’s brother at Ivenwald, a Washington-based fundamentalist group living communally in Arlington, Va., religion and journalism scholar Sharlet finds a sect whose members refer to Manhattan’s Ground Zero as "the ruins of secularism"; intrigued, Sharlet accepts on a whim an invitation to stay at Ivenwald. He’s shocked to find himself in the stronghold of a widespread "invisible" network, organized into cells much like Ivenwald, and populated by elite, politically ambitious fundamentalists; Sharlet is present when a leader tells a dozen men living there, "You guys are here to learn how to rule the world." As it turns out, the Family was established in 1935 to oppose FDR’s New Deal and the spread of trade unions; since then, it has organized well-attended weekly prayer meetings for members of Congress and annual National Prayer Breakfasts attended by every president since Eisenhower. Further, the Family’s international reach ("almost impossible to overstate") has "forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most oppressive regimes in the world." In the years since his first encounter, Sharlet has done extensive research, and his thorough account of the Family’s life and times is a chilling expose.

About the Author/作者介绍： 傑夫.沙利特Harper和Rolling Stone的特約編輯，紐約大學宗教研究中心學者，傑夫曾在紐約大學擔任新聞專業和宗教研究專業教師。與彼得.芒索合著作品《殺害佛主》（Killing the Buddha），還任TheRevealer.org.的編輯。居住在紐約的布魯克林。

Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone, and an associate research scholar at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, where he has taught journalism and religious studies. He is the coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha, and the editor of TheRevealer.org. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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