"Just when we thought the Christian right was crumbling, Jeff Sharlet delivers a rude shock: One of its most powerful and cult-like core groups, the Family, has been thriving. Sharlet's book is one of the most compelling and brilliantly researched exposes you'll ever read -- just don't read it alone at night!" --Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, and Dancing in the Streets Coming soon from HarperCollins, the new book by Jeff Sharlet -- the untold story of the elite Christian fundamentalism that has shaped the faith of the nation and the politics of empire from the first Great Awakening to the present day. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power dramatically challenges conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not