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Coe was personally chosen by Abram to be his successor, and he has been doing a phenomenal job ever since: “In 2005, Time magazine labeled Abram’s successor, Doug Coe, the stealth persuader, a term that might just as easily have fit his mentor. (p. 91-92)” The author beautifully built different characters with individual traits. Antonia a bookworm but Sofia is more like her father, a punch girl. They are likable, choose different paths, made mistakes, and got regret. Ten years ago, I would have called myself a “Born-Again Christian”, and I probably would have said it, if not with pride then without shame. Today, I have a hard time calling myself a Deist, let alone a Christian, not because I denounce the teachings of Christ (on the contrary, I try my best to live by them) but because, in my humble opinion, a portion of the people who call themselves Christians are not.

Whether it’s an attempt to prevent women from having the choice of abortions or preventing gay couples from reaping the benefits of marriage, Christian fundamentalists clearly want to set the rules, and they cleverly attempt to do this using the Christ card. Charles W. Colson, the Nixon aide/Watergate felon who converted to Christianity in prison, and a respected member of the Family, in 1979, once “estimated the Family’s strength at 20,000, although the number of dedicated “associates” around the globe is much smaller (around 350 as of 2006). (p.20)” Antonia and Sofia are daughters of crime families. As they grow up, they find that escaping the Family ways isn't always easy. Antonia and Sofia face the challenges of marriage and motherhood, dreaming the dreams of what might have been if a different path was selected. Erie, IL School Board Bans Pro-LGBT Families Book". Matthew Shepard Foundation. June 2012 . Retrieved 2 May 2013.Sanders captures the madness of the time in which all of this happened. It is evident not only in the fringe groups of weirdos and "sleaze inputs" that he exposes, but in his very writing. People who are hating on this book because of its use of slang are simply overlooking a beautiful aspect of it, which is how much it mirrors the culturally revolutionary flavor of the time it all went down in. Sanders himself was part of the counterculture. He writes like it. No mainstream release of this kind could be pulled off today with the stylized, colorful, irreverent writing that Sanders used. In that way, it is truly a time capsule. As Kuo said, “The Fellowship’s reach into governments around the world is almost impossible to overstate or even grasp. (p. 25)”

He traces a path from the 18th century fire and brimstone of Jonathan Edwards to the 19th century revivalist evangelical, Charles Finney, to the pulpit-pounding Billy Sunday of the 1920s through Abram Vereide, the major personal force behind what Sharlet (and its members) calls The Family. Vereide began his work in the 1930s, handing off eventually to Doug Coe, today’s leader (when this was written. Coe died in 2017. The current president is Katherine Crane.) and a familiar face and source of connections and financial support to many of our elected officials. At the end of the day, THE FAMILY isn't even good value for those who remain truly worried that people like the late Richard Halverson will one day rule America: Sharlet mainly repeats the same allegations made by David Cantor in the 1994 Anti-Defamation League study "The Religious Right: The Assault on Tolerance & Pluralism in America". Sharlet devotes a considerable portion of his book to the history of evangelism in the United States, beginning with Jonathan Edwards in the mid 18th century. We are led to the establishment of the Family’s precursor- the Fellowship- founded, ironically, in Seattle by a Norwegian immigrant as a response to labor movements and the lawlessness of a young, rapidly expanding city. The modern incarnation of the Family blossoms after WWII. The Cold War becomes the Family's cause célèbre, the eradication of communism worldwide in the name of Jesus Christ becomes its driving mission. Sharlet details the Family’s involvement in Indonesia (Suharto’s slaughter of untold millions), Somalia (Siad Barre’s slaughter of untold millions), Haiti, Central America, Uganda- the trail of blood goes on and on. The Family, not unlike many US administrations, nurtures dictators when it suits their political agenda and turns a blind eye to crimes against humanity. May 26, 2018 - NY Times - A Christian Nationalist Blitz – by Katherine Stewart - Where activist faith meets fascism Disillusioned by his experience in the political arena with Bush and his fellow elite fundamentalists (Bush, by the way, is a member of the Family, as if there was ever any question), Kuo quit his position after Bush’s first term. Kuo writes, “We were good people forced to run a sad charade, to provide political cover to a White House that needed compassion and religion as political tools. (p. 383)”Eventually, Langlie ran for, and won, the position of mayor. Unions didn’t stand a chance under Mayor Langlie: “”Good government,” as Langlie called his platform of budget slashing and punishing moral rectitude, trumped labor. (p. 120)” He wanted to limit their discussion to a harmless exchange,” it says. “Concerning Harry, the message that circulated in the family was not to trust him… everyone took it very seriously.” When I was a child, my family attended Fourth Presbyterian Church in the DC area, where Halverson was the minister, and he was a family friend. I saw him last in 1991 when he was Senate chaplain. Halverson recounted at that meeting how he and his colleague, the rabbi working with him in a pastoral capacity to the US Senate, had become very close, and that when the rabbi expressed astonishment some years before that their religious outlooks were so similar, Halverson responded "I've never heard you say anything I didn't completely agree with!" This is the man whom Sharlet paints as a sinister senior leader of a totalitarian, anti-Semitic organization plotting to take over America. I know that allegation to be false. Sanders' research was done as an insider. As such, much, if not most, of the information in the book is not cited in any kind of serious, academic or even journalistic way. For that reason (among others), I definitely think it should be read in conjunction with Bugliosi's Helter Skelter and Guinn's Manson (both fantastic books). However, I don't think a view on the topic is complete without at least one read of Sanders' The Family.

Understanding the Manson Family (if that's possible) requires a lot more than an examination of the events. To really "get" it, a person has to put themselves in the context of the era in which the family grew, devolved, and then entered infamy as murderers. No book on the Manson saga does this better than Ed Sanders' The Family. Known by most people as “Abram”, Veriede was a Norwegian-born preacher who arrived in this country right before the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression devastated this country. Somewhat annoyed by what he saw as an effiminization of Christianity, Abram longed for a faith made of sterner stuff. Abram took Ford under his wing, who was naturally attracted to Abram’s theology of “biblical capitalism”, which was, for Ford, a brilliant marriage of two of Ford’s interests: the Gospel and fascism. While Abram himself never quite adopted the language and spirit of fascism, his theology was nevertheless conducive to some of fascism’s attributes. The book suggests that only Prince Edward was worried about the state of his nephew’s mental health and alleges that it was the Princess Royal who persuaded the King to evict the Sussexes from Frogmore Cottage, their home on the Windsor estate.

Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He dropped out of Missouri University in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City’s Greenwich Village. He wrote his first major poem, "Poem from Jail," on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting against nuclear proliferation in 1961. In the vein of an American Elena Ferrante, a captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn. Sanders' book is perhaps a bit more difficult to read than the other Manson books because it makes so much use of the lingo of its time. But, if one looks at it as an immersive experience in the era, then that lingo becomes one of the best aspects of the entire book. I found this book at some used bookstore and gave it to my roommate, known for his interest in the bizarre. Then, months later, wanting something lighter than another reworked, Cambridge-published dissertation to read, I asked him for some recommendations. This book came up and was sitting on the dining room table the next day for my delectation.

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