Book Review: Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq

By Ann Weaver Hart
10/27/2009

T. Walter Herbert's book Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq looks at how the United States came to invade Iraq. Many believe this war violates every American principle of law and justice. Herbert, a careful student of history, agrees with them. In this book, he shows how what he calls "Christian Americanism" developed from Puritan roots in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.


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Book Review: Faith-Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq (October, 2009, Equinox Publishing, London)

By Robert Adler
10/20/2009

In this newly released book, T. Walter Herbert, an ex-minister, and Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture at Southwestern University, Texas, sets out to make sense of the Bush years by examining them in the light of how America has imagined and defined itself since its earliest days.


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