Ny 2009 basic books perseus group (2 Ergebnisse)
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black & grey hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inkin…g, underlining, remainder markings etc~. second printing (#2 in # line). xv+283p. notes. index. world history. politics. neocons. office of special plans. CIA. DIA. IMF. NSC. NSA. NASA. conspiracy theory. secret societies. ~ It can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award~winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful "shadow elite," the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both governments' rules of accountability and business codes of competition to accomplish their own goals. From the Harvard economists who helped privatize post~Soviet Russia and the neoconservatives who have helped privatize American foreign policy ( culminating with the debacle that is Iraq) to the many private players who daily make public decisions without public input, these manipulators both grace the front pages and operate behind the scenes. Wherever they maneuver, they flout once~sacrosanct boundaries between state and private. Profoundly original, Shadow Elite gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive players and comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our ability for self~government and our freedom are at stake.
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- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, USAChris Fessler, Bookseller
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grey hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps,…stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). decorative title pg. vii+270p. notes. index. philosophy. religion. memoirs. autobiography. ~ From the beginnings of the Christian movement to the present, there has been no end to disputation about what it means to say that Christians are "in but not of the world." American Babylon, the last work by eminent theologian Richard John Neuhaus examines the senses in which that sentiment holds particularly true for Christians in America today. Christians are by definition a people out of place. In this life short of the promised Kingdom of God, they are alien citizens. This inherent sense of alienation is compounded in America, a country that advertises itself a nation under God but is gravely marked by decadence, consumerism, and other distractions from our eternal destiny. Neuhaus brought his formidable intellect and imagination to bear on the quandaries of Catholic America in its time of testing. Precisely because we know that ours is a time and place of exile, we are sustained by unconquerable hope, knowing that we have not the reason and we have not the right to despair of our moment in the American Babylon. Deeply learned, frequently provocative, and always eloquent, American Babylon is a major statement of a major Christian thinker charting the path of faithfulness for dual citizens determined to be loyal both to their place of exile and to their promised destination in the New Jerusalem.
