MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Friday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Out from Brooklyn is Salon contributing writer Michelle Goldberg with her timely, open-eyed account, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (W.W. Norton, new in paper). This is this country she is writing about. "In an impressive piece of lucid journalism, Goldberg dives into the religious right and sorts out the history and networks of what to most liberals is an inscrutable parallel universe ... Significantly, her conclusions do not come off as hysterical or shrill. Even while pointing out the stark parallels between fascism and the language of the religious right, Goldberg's vision of America's future is measured and realistic. Her book is a potent wakeup call to pluralists in the coming showdown with Christian nationalists." - Publishers Weekly. "Every American who cherishes religious freedom, civil liberties, and the separation of church and state must read Kingdom Coming." - Abraham H. Foxman.

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