American Fascists

The Christian Right and the War on America

By: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong

Narrated by: Chris Hedges, Eunice Wong

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other televangelists first spoke of the United States being a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedoms and our way of life. In American Fascists, the Christian Right's religious legitimacy is challenged, and Hedges argues that, at its core, it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.

Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York, where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government in order to subvert it.

The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state, and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America, are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, and are reinforced through the curriculum of Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.

©2007 Chris Hedges and Eunice Wong; (P)2007 Tantor Media Inc.

Critic reviews

"This urgent book forcefully illuminates what many across the political spectrum will recognize as a serious and growing threat to the very concept and practice of an open society." ( Publishers Weekly)

Still rings frighteningly true 10 years later.

I can't believe how much the author forsaw. amazing foresight and analysis! when I picked up this book years ago, I thought the author was a crackpot. Now it's easy to see and frighteningly true.

Read the Book…It is Happening Now

Before our very eyes, our democracy is being threatened by both Political and Religious Fascists. Stand up for your rights or your rights will disappear.

Must read/listen

What are the differences between your beliefs and those of the Nazis? This is a fundamental question that requires those of the American Evangelical Christian movement to answer for themselves and openly to the rest of society truthfully and honestly.

Fantastic audiobook!

I cannot recommend this book enough. I think it's very timely seeing what is happening right now in the USA with the Republican Party. I encourage everyone to listen to it, whether you're a theist or an atheist like myself. We must come together if we want to save our country.

Must Read!

Published in 2007 and I think painfully accurately describes the fundamentalists evangelical Christian backed Trump phenomenon and the subsequent ReTrumplican party Project 2025.