by Jeff Sharlet
“Starve doubts”: Vereide quoted in an obituary in News in the Campus Work, June 6, 1969 (no. 3), box 475, collection 459, BGCA.
“the nightingale of the House of Commons”: R. Coupland, Wilberforce: A Narrative (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923), 4.
“There were very few that stood against the Enlightenment”: Author’s interview.
“all the era’s repressive measures”: Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), 252.
“Went to Pitt’s”: Ibid., 246.
“mad-headed professors of equality and liberty”: Coupland, Wilberforce, 179.
“The first year that I was in Parliament”: Ibid., 91.
“the wittiest man in England”: Eric Metaxas, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (New York: HarperOne, 2007), 28.
“I saw what seemed a mere shrimp”: Coupland, Wilberforce, 4.
“perversion”: Ibid., 33.
save Shakespeare: Hochschild, Bury the Chains, 251.
“shame”: Coupland, Wilberforce, 366–68.
“the ancient censorship”: Ibid., 54.
“grateful peasantry”: Hochschild, Bury the Chains, 314.
“that their more lowly path”: Ibid.
“He must never be morbid”: Coupland, Wilberforce, 89.
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
1. The Confessions
2. The Lovers
3. The Chosen
4. The Kingdom
5. The War
6. The Now
Acknowledgments
Reading Group Guide
Notes
About the author
Also by Jeff Sharlet
Praise for Jeff Sharlet’s C Street
Copyright
About the author
Jeff Sharlet is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Family. He is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Rolling Stone, the coauthor of Killing the Buddha, and an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth College. He has written for Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, and many other magazines and newspapers. He lives in New Hampshire. Visit his website at www.jeffsharlet.com.
ALSO BY JEFF SHARLET
The Family
Killing the Buddha (with Peter Manseau)
Praise for Jeff Sharlet’s
C Street
The Fundamentalist Threat to
American Democracy
“C Street is a testimony to the power of engaged, naming-names investigative journalism. This is not a book for the fainthearted. Read it and find out what’s at stake in the culture wars.”
—Audrey Bilger, Ms.
“At once a gripping political thriller, a masterpiece of investigative journalism, and a timely call to arms, C Street reveals all that can be hidden within an innocuous Washington address. Jeff Sharlet delivers a warning that the blurring of the line between church and state is both an urgent local problem and a matter of global concern.”
—Peter Manseau, author of Rag and Bone:
A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead
and Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter
“Jeff Sharlet, I believe, has hit on an issue that has profound implications for American society. In fact, it has the power to ruin us.”
—Roger Shuler, Daily Kos
“Important.”
—Rachel Maddow on The Rachel Maddow Show
“A must read…. C Street reads like a hyper-real nightmare; the detailed glimpses of emotionally stifled congressional love affairs come with the added intimacy of love letter excerpts, and Sharlet’s conversations with evangelical politicians in Uganda are especially well-fleshed.”
—Yana Kunichoff, Truthout.com
“Jeff Sharlet’s firsthand reporting is brilliant, even courageous…. Sharlet’s approach is unusually resourceful…. He rightly documents evangelical abuses of power at home and abroad.”
—John G. Turner, Washington Post
“A new comprehensive look at the Family’s quiet and carefully obscured influence.”
—Scott Horton, Harper’s
“Jeff Sharlet has managed to break through the Family’s secrecy, writing two books that dig deep inside the shady organization.”
—Anna Clark, AlterNet
“Mind-bending…. A well-documented, probing investigation.”
—Ilene Cooper, Booklist
“A fascinating story with details that will intrigue and outrage readers…. C Street provides valuable insights into an influential political and religious group.”
—Claude Marx, Boston Globe
“Sharlet’s book does not disappoint in the department of deconstructing politicians’ affairs.”
—Moe Tkacik, Washington City Paper
“An eye-opener that rings multiple alarms.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Inspiring. After reading this book, I have renewed respect for people like Sharlet who are unafraid to reveal the truth. I can’t recommend C Street highly enough to the readers of this site. Sharlet has done an exemplary job of detailing the shenanigans…. As it is, we should be afraid, very afraid. Now, at least, thanks to Sharlet, we’re informed.”
—Steve Weinstein, Edgenewyork.com
* The young man I’m calling Ahmed has asked to remain anonymous. He did not wish to be identified as having crossed the Fatfat clan.
* It’s in the first words of the First Amendment.
Copyright
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