Land of Sin : Inside the Movement that Controls the Republican Party
Max Blumenthal is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow for the Nation Institute, a research fellow for Media Matters, and a senior writer for The Daily Beast. A regular contributor to the Nation, his work has appeared in the New York Times, the American Prospect, Salon.com, Washington Monthly, and the Huffington Post. He won the Online Journalism Award for Best Independent Feature, given by the USC Annenberg Center for Communications and the Online Journalism Association, for his investigation into the serial killings of female sweat-shop workers in Ciudad Juarez.
"With scarcely more than a pith helmet, a notebook, and a tattered
copy of Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm's great study of
authoritarian psychology, the dauntless Max Blumenthal set forth
years ago to explore the dank forests of American Christianism. Now
he has returned to civilization, bringing back a fine collection of
shrunken heads and a riveting account of a religio-political
subculture that's even weirder than you thought it was. Republican
Gomorrah is an irresistable combination of anthropology and
psychopathology that exerts the queasy fascination of (let's face
it) something very like pornography."
--Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor, The New Yorker
"A brave and resourceful reporter adept at turning over rocks that
public-relations-savvy Christian conservative leaders would prefer
remain undisturbed."
--Rick Perlstein,
"A brave and resourceful reporter adept at turning over rocks that
public-relations-savvy Christian conservative leaders would prefer
remain undisturbed."
--Rick Perlstein, "New York Times Book Review"
"When the Palin nomination was announced, hundreds of journalists
descended on Anchorage and its northern suburb of Wasilla. A
handful of serious expose pieces emerged in the process. But only
one visitor up north came back with a bag of gold nuggets. His name
is Max Blumenthal. Over the past several years, Blumenthal's work
has focused on fringe groups on the right. He has excelled in
covering political activism among evangelicals. His technique is
simple: he confronts the subjects and lets them speak for
themselves....Were it not for the determination and fearlessness of
Max Blumenthal, we would now stand one week before the election
largely ignorant of Palin's Christianist political theology."
--Scott Horton, "Harper's"
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