Jeff Sharlet
Author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
About the Author
Jeff Sharlet is a visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media. He is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, the coauthor, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha, and the editor of The Revealer.org. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Works by Jeff Sharlet
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (2008) 1,020 copies, 27 reviews
Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between (2011) 51 copies, 1 review
Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith (2009) — Editor — 43 copies, 1 review
Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief (2014) — Editor — 27 copies, 1 review
An Anthropologist Finds Indians Lived in Less-Than-Perfect Harmony With Nature [periodical article] (1999) 1 copy
Associated Works
Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) — Contributor — 82 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1972
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Occupations
- journalist
- Relationships
- Sharlet, Robert (father)
- Organizations
- Harper's Magazine
Rolling Stone
The Nation Institute
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Reviews
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart… by Jeff Sharlet
I heard about this book on Rachel Maddow's podcast that I was listening to just last night. Sounds fascinating.
A remarkable travelogue of post-Trumpian America that explores vast differences of ideology across vast tracts of grief-stricken land. Sharlet is a wonderfully gifted journalist whose ornate prose flows through brooks and ravines of communities in perpetual mourning. He compassionately interrogates the stormy confluence of emotion and logic, a remote and fathomless delta poisoned by blind faith and cultish urges that are fomented by charismatic charlatans and righteous avengers for an imagined populace who have collectively been duped by the very junkyard messiah they worship. The Undertow is a modern take on Lesy's Wisconsin Death Trip that lays bare the circling eddy of white American exceptionalism and provides creative commentary about the overfracked streams of consciousness that have carried the nation to the brink of another civil war, and that continue to roil and bubble just upriver from the next roaring cataract. Bookended by transportive chapters that explore the legacies of Harry Belafonte and Lee Hays and their respective ordeals of social justice, Sharlet effectively reminds us that the past is all-too-obviously prologue.… (more)
Well done, reads very much as a product of its time. I wish I had stumbled across it at the Borders or Raven in Lawrence the first time round.
Most of the bible verse versions were excellent - I have a bias against Jonah - even as a child I could never get over fish, whale, eh, what's the difference. I _knew_ the difference, at eight. Revelations was weird, but how could it be otherwise. Our dual heretical guides come across as the young men they were.
Most of the bible verse versions were excellent - I have a bias against Jonah - even as a child I could never get over fish, whale, eh, what's the difference. I _knew_ the difference, at eight. Revelations was weird, but how could it be otherwise. Our dual heretical guides come across as the young men they were.
Whew, boy. A strange and disturbing book, as befits its subject. "Christian" nationalism, the far right, guns, guns, guns, and so much more. Very, very, very dispiriting.
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