by Kevin Phillips · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143038283
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«American Theocracy» is the political essay by Kevin Phillips, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (512 pages, in English).
The work analyzes the combination of religious fundamentalism, oil dependence and public debt that, according to Kevin Phillips, threatens the stability of the United States. It draws on historical examples of earlier empires to warn that the combination of excessive power, militant religion and economic problems can precipitate national decline.
Full title: «The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century». This 2007 reprint includes a new preface.
For readers interested in the political analysis of the United States and the relationship between religion, economics and power.
Kevin Price Phillips was an American writer and commentator on politics, economics, and history. He emerged as a Republican Party strategist who helped devise its Southern Strategy in the 1960s. Phillips became disaffected with the party by the 1990s, subsequently leaving it to become an independent and staunch critic of the Republicans. He was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, and National Public Radio, and was a political analyst on PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers.
