Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagination Dead Imagine -- Chapter 2 Beyond the Golden Rule -- Chapter 3 Confessions of a Holy Whore -- Chapter 4 The Spirit of Disobedience -- Chapter 5 A New Fundamentalism: Time, Home, and Food -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author
Dubbed “a splendidly cranky academic” by Molly Ivins, novelistand social critic CURTIS WHITE is a professor of English at IllinoisState University. His previous book, The Middle Mind: Why AmericansDon’t Think for Themselves, was widely acclaimed. His otherbooks include Monstrous Possibility, Requiem, Memories of My FatherWatching TV, and The Idea of Home. His essays have appeared inmany publications, including Harper’s Magazine and The VillageVoice. He lives in Normal, Illinois, with his wife Georganne Rundbladand their five psittacine companions.183
“Curtis White has given us a brave and necessary corrective to some
basic tenets of left/liberal ideology. This fine new book reminds
us that the spirit of disobedience, rightly understood, is the very
spirit of America.”
—Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again
“A splendid book, distinguished by the clarity of its thought, the
force of its argument, the eloquence of its expression. White
brings a great light into the darkness that has descended upon the
hope of a decent American future, and his book should be required
reading for any citizen looking for a way out of the mess that we
have made of both the Christian ethic and the democratic
spirit.”
—Lewis Lapham, author of Pretensions to Empire
“Those who call on America to behave like a Christian nation should
be careful of what they wish for. As Curtis White shows us, with
his usual penetrating analysis, this is hardly a goal compatible
with conservative political practice, from foreign adventurism all
the way down to Ten Commandments monuments on the courthouse
lawn.”
—Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?
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