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Empire Falls

Eugene McCarraher

American Theocracy The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century Kevin Phillips Viking, $26.95, 428 pp. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Augustine composed The City of God sixteen centuries ago, but its scathing survey of Rome’s waning imperial culture still seems fres (...)


 

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