Few people in the UK really understand what it is that drives the US Administration and the Bush Presidency. Michael Northcott is one of those, and his expose of the evangelical fundamentalism and neo-conservative ideology that underpins the Republican Party today is masterly - and deeply disturbing. "An Angel Directs the Storm" is an outstanding piece of scholarly insightful polemic from which we all have a lot to learn". Jonathan Porritt "I would hope that this book will be read widely in both Great Britain and America. It shows with skill and perspicuity that the nature of the US reaction to 9/11 had been long prefigured by the American subversion of Christianity. [It is] a mature, historically informed and passionate analysis of the current American psyche, that tells Americans things of which they urgently need to take heed." Stanley Hauerwas "Northcott develops an incisive critique of American apocalyptic religion and argues for an understanding of church as counter-culture to...