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A Guiding Light

Revisado: 10-24-22

I wish I'd had a book like this fifty years ago! This history of Capitalism in context of religious currents that pervaded and shaped the US sheds such an awakening light on dark pathways and corners, cul-de-sacs and deadends of US culture, society, religion, politics, and economics. Invitations for further research and discovery lurk in every chapter. Names of contributors to fashioning our way of living of whom I never heard have intrigued me to build my library even more!
I hope McCarraher will fill some gaps in future editions. For example, among contributors to the dominance of financial capitalism he omits the prominence of Jewish bankers and financiers. His discussion focuses primarily on influences of evangelical Christianity. How this version of Christianity with its embrace of the Old Testament's (Hebrew Bible's) and it materialism and regulatory strictures interacts with Jewish theology/philosophy is not explored.
Similarly, in discussing neoliberalism's destructive force in reshaping national economies, he omits mention of the US-led restructuring, financializing, and privatizing of the emerging Russian economy in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I am impatient to hear his take on these and other lacunae in what is even now a very long listen/read.
As it stand, McCarraher has given us a treasure that deserves more than one listen/read.
Mr. Boemher's performance of this edition is excellent. I'm looking forward to listening to more of his readings.

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Tear up the Russia "Playbook!

Revisado: 04-24-22

Though written before the Russian military operation, or in US-speak, invasion of Ukraine, Cohen's "War with Russia?" is amazingly prescient and even prophetic. Cohen is prescient in foreseeing major elements of the Ukraine conflict. He is prophetic by holding up to clear-eyed scrutiny how Russia was for some thirty years bullied into war and Ukraine made to suffer the consequences.
NATO expansion has resulted in a shooting war accompanied by an economic war of western-imposed sanctions. The shooting war has put Ukrainians to suffering and dispersion while the US and its NATO allies keep protracting the foghting with a steady supply of arms and by refusing to enter peace negotiations to bring killing to a halt.
Cohen clearly etches the danger of nuclear war, so far avoided since the US unleashed devastation on Japan. We are not out of the woods on that score.

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Timely Tale Well Told

Revisado: 08-23-17

Offred, the narrator, is real. The story is resonant with motifs from US history. The present with the ascendancy of the Right and its useful vehicle, Trump, gives fresh pertinence to Atwood's vision.

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