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Secular America Under Siege
Doubleday
September 2006
On Sale: September 19, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0385516479
EAN: 9780385516471
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Religion | Non-Fiction Political
George W. Bush has gone out of his way to blur the line
between religion and politics in America—this is
acknowledged by his strongest supporters no less than by his
most strident critics. The most common explanation of the
president’s religious agenda points to rise of evangelical
Protestantism. Yet as Damon Linker demonstrates in his
groundbreaking book, an exclusive focus on the role of
evangelicals misses the heart of the story. At its core, the
Bush administration’s overt religiosity represents the
triumph of an ideological movement that for the past several
decades has devoted itself to fashioning a theocratic
governing philosophy for the United States—a governing
philosophy rooted in Roman Catholicism. Led by Father
Richard John Neuhaus, this group of “theoconservatives” has
actively sought to roll back the division of church and
state in American life.
The election of 2000 brought the theocons to the peak of
political power and influence in Washington. Their ideas
inspire the most controversial and divisive policies of the
Bush administration—policies whose ultimate goal is nothing
less than the end of secular politics in America.
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