American Theocracy

wfzimmerman's review: "What I have learned from the LibraryThing reviews: 1) no one really liked the book very much, and some people really hated it; 2) the structure, content, and style, which was a conscious experiment, wasn't a very successful one; 3) people really hate seeing Wikipedia listed as a source. Fair enough! Onward... Cordially, Fred Zimmerman"
Nimble Books (2007), Paperback, 188 pages

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AMERICAN THEOCRACY Unpacked: Arguments Disassembled, Implications Explored, and a Way Forward Suggested (Paperback)
by W. Frederick Zimmerman (Author)

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Afterwards we will be able to carry on with our lives just as Spaniards have done since the seventeenth century, just as the French have done since Waterloo, and just as the English and Germans have done since the end of World War II. And, lest we forget, just as Canada has done since its very beginning. Of course our imperial pretensions will be far more modest than before, but we shall be better for it. And eventually we might live down our infamous reputation acquired in both Vietnam and Iraq.

We seem stymied in the sixtieth year of our hegemonic fling, half the period of time enjoyed by England. Like Germany, which consumed itself in the seven decades that elapsed between the Franco-Prussian War and Hitler’s defeat, our claim to imperial status seems in trouble almost before it began, and without the many cultural benefits that both England and Germany enjoyed during their heyday — their science, philosophy, literature, music and art. Like Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we have little to show for our successes. Spain invented Don Quixote; we’ve invented electronic technology and the atomic bomb.

Does this mean that the Iraq debacle predicts utter collapse for the United States? Not at all. One suspects a “soft landing” will happen instead. Bush or one of his successors in the White House will find a respectable way to remove the American presence from Iraq, and our political and economic leadership will do everything necessary to maneuver a gentle aftermath when the dollar finally bottoms out, as it shall. Afterwards we will be able to carry on with our lives just as Spaniards have done since the seventeenth century, just as the French have done since Waterloo, and just as the English and Germans have done since the end of World War II. And, lest we forget, just as Canada has done since its very beginning. Of course our imperial pretensions will be far more modest than before, but we shall be better for it. And eventually we might live down our infamous reputation acquired in both Vietnam and Iraq.

A pleasingly sensible assessment compared to Kevin Phillips’s overheated appraisal.

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When I began reading American Theocracy, the best-seller by Kevin Phillips, I felt almost immediately that this was an excellent and thought-provoking book that was so wrong about so many fundamental issues that it demanded a strong, immediate, and highly focused response. This book, American Theocracy Unpacked, takes advantage of electronic publishing technology to provide that “nimble” response, less than three months after I started reading Phillips’s book.

In American Theocracy Unpacked, I take a close, almost paragraph-by-paragraph look at Phillips’s arguments. I am confident that the result is respectful but stimulating. I acknowledge and applaud his many important insights, but I also suggest a way forward that is less fearful of an “American theocracy,” and, indeed, more hopeful for America and the world.

In the body of the book, I have used the informal, rather “bulletized” house style that Nimble Books has used to produce “living books” on subjects ranging from Harry Potter and Dan Brown to science, politics, technology, and medicine.

READ THIS BOOK IF …

• You thought American Theocracy was an important book.
• You are interested in a far-ranging, open-minded meditation on the issues Phillips raises.
• You are a Christian who is wondering how to be “salt and light” in a world that fears theocracy.

DON’T BOTHER IF …

• You are expecting me to disagree with everything in American Theocracy.
• You are expecting me to attack Kevin Phillips as a person.
• You aren’t willing to read American Theocracy.

HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED AND WHAT IT CONTAINS

This book follows the same structure as American Theocracy, with the addition of some introductory and interstitial comments.

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