Christian Nation (50 page)

Excerpt from Christopher Hedges reprinted from
Empire of Illusion.
© 2010 by Chris Hedges. Available from Nation Books, an imprint of Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2010. Used by Permission. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from James Luther Adams, from
The Evolution of My Social Concern
. Herbert F. Vetter, Harvard Square Library.
The Evolution of My Social Concern
(1977) originally printed in The Unitarian Universalist Christian (1977); appears in Voluntary Associations (1986); Essential James Luther Adams (1998); Prophet to the Powerful (2008). Reprinted with permission of The James Luther Adams Foundation.

Excerpt from Samantha Powers’s introduction to
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt. Copyright © 1973, 1968, 1966, 1958, 1951, 1948 by Hannah Arendt and renewed 2001, 1996, 1994, 1986 by Lotte Kohler, Copyright renewed 1979 by Mary McCarthy West, Copyright renewed 1976 by Hannah Arendt. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted courtesy of Andre Deutsch (2004). Used by Permission of Carlton Books, UK.

Excerpt from Sinclair Lewis’s
It Can’t Happen Here
, 1935 (copyright renewed 1962 Michael Lewis). New American Library (Penguin) Trade;
Reprint Edition (October 4, 2005) courtesy of McIntosh & Otis.

Excerpt from Christopher Hitchens’s “Why Americans Are Not Taught History” used by kind permission of the Estate of Christopher Hitchens. All rights reserved.

Excerpt from Michael Tournier’s
Gemini
, translated by Ann Carter, pp. 112 and 379. © 1975 by Editions Gallimard. Translation copyright © 1981 by William Collins, Sons & Company, Limited. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Excerpts from Margaret Atwood’s
The Handmaid’s Tale
. Copyright © 1986 by O.W. Toad, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Larmore Literary Agency. All rights reserved.

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Rich, Frederic C.

Christian nation : novel / Frederic C. Rich. — First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-393-24011-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-0-393-24034-4 (e-book)

1. Religious right—Fiction. 2. United States—Politics and government—21st century—Fiction. I. Title.

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