{"product_id":"christian-nation-9780393240115","title":"Christian Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eSo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the spirit of Philip Roth's \u003cem\u003eThe Plot Against America\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003ecould\u003c\/em\u003e it have happened?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393240115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Frederic C. Rich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43799719706805,"sku":"9780393240115","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3435a2cd-fd0f-4153-b4b7-8dfc6e1919dc.jpg?v=1711477346","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/christian-nation-9780393240115","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}