Glenn Beck and the Magic of History
August 28, 2010/
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In light of Glenn Beck’s invocation of phony American history on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial today, I think it’s worth reviving my 2006 Harper’s magazine story on the Christian Right’s make over of the past, “Through a Glass Darkly: How the Christian Right is Re-imagining American History.”
Jeff Sharlet is a founding editor of Killing the Buddha, coauthor with Peter Manseau of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (2004) and co-editor of Believer, Beware (2009). Sharlet is also the author of Sweet Heaven When I Die, (2011), C Street, (2010), and the New York Times bestseller The Family (2008).