Money, Lies, and God

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

Katherine Stewart (Author) , Patricia Rodriguez (Narrator)

Money, Lies, and God

Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

Katherine Stewart (Author) , Patricia Rodriguez (Narrator)

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"An indispensable citizen's guide to the anti-democratic MAGA Right in America."–Congressman Jamie Raskin

"Meticulously researched, elegantly written, and hard-hitting."–Kristin Kobes Du Mez

The acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers exposes the inner workings of the “engine of unreason” roiling American culture and politics.

Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,” pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, Covid truthers, militia members masquerading as “concerned moms” and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.

Along the way, she provides a compelling analysis of the authoritarian reaction in the United States. She demonstrates that the movement relies on several distinct constituencies, with very different and often conflicting agendas. Stewart's reporting and comprehensive political analysis helps reframe the conversation about the moral collapse of conservatism in America and points the way forward toward a democratic future.

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Published	18 Feb 2025
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	352
ISBN	9781635578553
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worsh…

Narrator

Patricia Rodriguez

An eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment . . . Money, Lies, and God covers a lot of terrain, but it's Stewart's exploration of right-wing ideas that makes her book stand out . . . Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss.

Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review
Money, Lies, and God paints not only a devastating picture of the state of American democracy but one that also contributes texture and context to understanding the current American political moment. American democracy isn't simply dying. It is, as Stewart observes, being murdered.

Casey Michel, The New Republic
Organized, clear, and compelling . . . journalism of the highest order . . . This is an important book and it couldn't appear at a more opportune time.

California Review of Books
Among the dozens of books that have attempted to identify the forces that Trump rode to power, this is one of the most closely reported and cogent.

Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs
Stewart displays her skills as a veteran investigative journalist as she exposes the root causes and key players of this antidemocratic movement . . . for many it will be a wake-up call; a call to recognize and respond to a movement that threatens to both undermine democracy and distort American Christianity.

Liberty Magazine
Stewart is a talented writer, weaving together narratives and research to help us understand how our politics and public expressions of faith became what we see today . . . After reading through the first 12 chapters, you'll be ready to join Stewart as she lays out some next steps in her conclusion. Because that's the work we need to do now. And this is a book we need now.

Word & Way