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MAX BLUMENTHAL @ Berkeley Arts & Letters with KPFA
MAX BLUMENTHAL
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
Award-winning journalist and documentary videographer Max Blumenthal has become one of the most important journalists writing about how the Religious Right fringe movement became the Republican Party mainstream. Whether it was his revelation of Sarah Palins involvement with a Kenyan pastor who boasted of epic battles with witches, or his expos of the eccentric theocratic multimillionaire behind Californias Prop 8 anti-gay-marriage initiative, Blumenthals reporting goes almost instantly viral, shocks thousands, has been cited everywhere from MSNBC to the New York Times, and has landed him interviews on Fresh Air and The Rachel Maddow Show.
Republican Gomorrah -- Blumenthals remarkable, muckraking debut -- is an expos of the dysfunction, scandal, and crime from the heart of the Religious Right, the fringe movement that has come to define the Republican Party. Blumenthal describes the people and the beliefs that establishment Republicans, like John McCain, have to kowtow to if they have any hope of running for president, and how moderates have been systematically purged from party ranks. He shows why the unqualified Sarah Palin was the partys only logical choice and how her most fanatical supporters will be setting the strategy for the Republican assault on the Obama administration. Not only an expos, Republican Gomorrah reveals that many of the movements leading figures are united by more than political campaigns; they are bound together by a shared sensibility rooted in private trauma. Their lives have been stained by crisis and scandal -- depression, mental illness, extra-marital affairs, struggles with homosexual urges, addiction to drugs and pornography, serial domestic abuse, and even murder. Inspired by the work of psychologist Erich Fromm, who analyzed how the fear of freedom propels anxiety-ridden people into authoritarian settings, Blumenthal explains in a compelling narrative how a culture of personal crisis has defined the radical right, transforming the character of the Republican Party for the next generation and setting the stage for the future of American politics.
Max Blumenthal is one of the most constantly cited young liberal journalists in America and is regularly featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, Democracy Now and the Countdown with Keith Olbermann. His articles and video documentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a correspondent for The Daily Beast, a research fellow for Media Matters for America and a Puffin Writing Fellow for the Nation Institute. Visit him at www.maxblumenthal.com
7:30 PM
Berkeley Arts & Letters @ FCCB
in the sanctuary at 2345 Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley
Â; $12 advance ($6 students with ID advance) at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006 /$15 door
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LocationFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way at Dana
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
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