Hijacking America George Hardback Polity Press 9780745644608

Hijacking AmericaHow the Secular and Religious Right Changed What Americans Think\nAuthor(s): Susan George\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745644608, 978-0745644608\nSynopsis\nGeorge Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to normal, right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation of American society and political culture. Using the four Ms money, media, marketing, managementbut above all with a keen sense of mission, the American secular and religious right has made its long march through the institutions and changed the way Americans think. As the left went about its business in blissful ignorance, convinced that its policies, programmes and projects spoke for themselves and would always prevail; the rights well-oiled machine of foundations, lobbies, think-tanks, publications, political cadres,.