Christian nation : novel

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Label

Christian nation : novel

Title remainder

novel

Statement of responsibility

Frederic C. Rich

Creator

• trueRich, Frederic C.
• Rich, Frederic C

Author

• Rich, Frederic C

Subject

• trueDystopias
• trueFundamentalism
• trueMcCain, John, 1936-
• trueMcCain, John, 1936-2018
• trueNew Right
• truePalin, Sarah, 1964-
• truePolitical fiction
• trueAlternative histories
• trueChristianity
• truePower (Social sciences)
• truePresidents -- United States -- Election -- 2008
• Religious right -- Fiction
• trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Fiction

Genre

• truePolitical fiction
• Fiction
• trueAlternative histories

Language

eng

Summary

"They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do." So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian Nation" and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said. In the spirit of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, one of America's foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called "The Blessing", enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the "Purity Web". Readers will find themselves haunted by the questions the narrator struggles to answer in this fictional memoir: "What happened, why did it happen, how could it have happened?"-- Publisher's description

Storyline

• truePlot-driven
• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueBleak

Character

• trueExaggerated

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3618.I33275

LC item number

C48 2013

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult