Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, January 1999.
ISBN: 0393046893
Over a 10-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers - sometimes disturbed, sometimes euphoric, usually bizarre, and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their own all-American spin to the Biblical idea of apocalypse. Among the amazing cast of characters encountered: a UFO cult whose members look forward to the mass landing of Angelic Space Brothers in 2001; trembling New Age penitents who fear that our polluted planet is bent on taking highly conscious revenge; a born-again Christian determined, on God's orders, to carry a 12-foot cross across every nation on earth; life-extensionists convinced that if they can only live long enough science will make sure they'll live forever; separatists attempting to construct their own man-made utopian countries far from the shores of corrupt and repressive America; Bible literalists studiously preparing for the Rapture; and a rich assortment of many other credulous, paranoid, and/or ecstatic fringe dwellers. Heard takes us on a thoroughly fascinating, sometimes frightening romp through America's rather surreal millennial landscape. Binding: Hardcover
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