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sarahrigg 's review for:
The Family
by Jeff Sharlet
I was scared by about 40 pages in. This is not an easy beach read. It's got tons of notes in the back and flipping back and forth added to the time it took to read this nearly-400-page book. He gives a lot of history of the fundamentalist Christian movement in America, how fundamentalists have influenced men in power in the past and today and also talks a bit about the more street-level effect of fundamentalism on American culture (i.e. virginity pledges, homeschooling, etc.). I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family, so some of the things he finds odd about the culture aren't that odd to me, but a lot of the secret history was a revelation, like the links between fundamentalism, anti-communism and union-bashing. An important read, if not an easy one.