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02391aam a22003858i 4500 001 06FE8884DB0111E2B451E790DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 130410s2013 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2013009640 020 $a 0393240118 (hardcover) 020 $a 9780393240115 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)840927708 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d ZS3 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3618.I33275 $b C48 2013 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Rich, Frederic C. 245 10 $a Christian nation : $b novel / $c Frederic C. Rich. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1307 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2013] 300 $a iv, 342 pages ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "It could happen here..."-- Dust jacket. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Religious right $v Fiction. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 21st century $v Fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l SIPD314 $d 20230201012643.0 952 $l RLPB371 $d 20220624011048.0 952 $l MMPE553 $d 20180719041807.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418094758.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06FE8884DB0111E2B451E790DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IW9Initiate Another SILO Locator Search