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Author Urban, Hugh B.

Title The secrets of the kingdom : religion and concealment in the Bush administration / Hugh B. Urban
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2007]
©2007

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Description xiv, 229 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Preface : an obsession with secrecy -- Introduction : the kingdom of secrets : religion, secrecy, and the politics of empire -- Prodigal son, American Moses : the faith-based presidency of George W. Bush -- No need for explanation : generalized secrecy and unanswerable lies -- New American century, new American empire : religion, secrecy, and the -- Neoconservatives -- Machiavelli meets the religious right : Michael Ledeen and the politics of mass -- Manipulation -- Never say lie : the corporate media and the projection of the Bush image -- America left behind : millenarian dreams and the sorrows of empire -- Conclusion : rescuing openness and "moral values" for a post-Bushist democracy -- Addendum -- Select bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index
Subject Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Religion.
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Influence.
Religion and politics -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001002071
LC no. 2006101200
ISBN 9780742552463 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742552462 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742552470 (paperback: alk. paper)
0742552470 (paperback: alk. paper)