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Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
Nation Books
September 2009
On Sale: September 8, 2009
416 pages ISBN: 1568497296 EAN: 9781568497297 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Over the last year, award-winning journalist and
videographer Max Blumenthal has been behind some of the
most sensational (and funniest) exposes of Republican
machinations. Whether it was his revelation that Sarah
Palin was "anointed" by a Kenyan priest famous for casting
out witches, or his confronting Republican congressional
leaders and John McCain's family at the GOP convention
about the party's opposition to sex education (and hence,
the rise in teen pregnancies like that of Palin's
daughter), or his expose of the eccentric multimillionaire
theocrat behind California's Prop 8 anti-gay marriage
initaive, Blumenthal has become one of the most important
and most constantly cited journalists on how fringe
movements are becoming the Republican Party mainstream. Republican Gomorrah is a bestiary of dysfunction, scandal
and sordidmess from the dark heart of the forces that now
have a leash on the party. It shows how those forces are
the ones that establishment Republicans-like John McCain-
have to bow to if they have any hope of running for
President. It shows that Sarah Palin was the logical choice
of a party in the control of theocrats. But more that just
an expose, Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the
movement's leading figures have more in common than just
the power they command within conservative ranks. Their
personal lives have been stained by crisis and scandal:
depression, mental illness, extra-marital affairs,
struggles with homosexual urges, heavy medication,
addiction to pornography, serial domestic abuse, and even
murder. Inspired by the work of psychologists Erich Fromm,
who asserted that the fear of freedom propels anxiety-
ridden people into authoritarian settings, Blumenthal
explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of
personal crisis has defined the radical right, transforming
the nature of the Republican Party for the next generation
and setting the stage for the future of American politics.
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