This month we will discuss The Family, by Jeff Sharlet.

“It reads in part like a Cold War spy novel, but unfortunately The Family by Jeff Sharlet is not fiction. Rather, The Family, subtitled The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, tells the story of how one quasi-evangelical organization clandestinely infiltrated the halls of power in Washington, D.C. and beyond. It is the story of raw politics wrapped in a blanket of evangelical piety that is at times both fascinating and disturbing.

The author, Jeff Sharlet, knows the Family better than most outside the elite Washington set — Sharlet spent a month in 2002 living in one of the Family’s many residences, Ivanwald. While there, Sharlet was privy to confidential Family documents and met with the head of the Family, Doug Coe.”