Add this copy of Prophecy and Politics; Militant Evangelists on the Road to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Lawrence Hill & Company.
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Very good in Good jacket. [10], 210, [4] pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Signed with sentiment (With best wishes) by author on half-title. The dust jacket has some wear and soiling. First printing reportedly limited to only 15, 000 copies. Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923-August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer. The daughter of writer Harry H. Halsell, she studied at Texas Tech from 1939 to 1942, at Columbia University from 1943 to 1944, at Texas Christian University from 1945 to 1951, and at the Sorbonne (Paris) from 1957 to 1958. Halsell worked for several newspapers between 1942 and 1965, including the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and the Washington bureau of the Houston Post. She covered both the Korean and Vietnam Wars as a reporter, and was a White House speech writer for President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. She wrote ten books, including the critically acclaimed Soul Sister and Journey to Jerusalem. Several of which involved her "passing" as a member of a racial or ethnic minority. For Soul Sister (1969), she used vitiligo-corrective medication to darken her skin and live as an African American for several months. In 1973, she published Bessie Yellowhair, in which she tried to pass as a member of the Navajo. For 1978's The Illegals, she disguised herself as a Mexican immigrant. Halsell, an author and journalist, attended two pilgrimages organized by the Reverend Jerry Falwell--one in 1983 attended by 630 pilgrims, and a second in 1985 attended by 850 pilgrims. She also attended the First Christian Zionist Congress in 1985. One resolution at that Congress called for all Jews living outside Israel to move to Israel. The Christians also urged Israel to annex that portion of occupied Palestine called the West Bank, with its near one million Palestinian inhabitants. An Israeli Jew, seated in the audience, rose to suggest that perhaps the language might be modified. He pointed out that an Israeli poll showed that one-third of the Israelis would be willing to trade territory seized in 1967 for peace with the Palestinians. "We don't care what the Israelis vote! " declared van der Hoeven [spokesman for the International Christian Embassy]. We care what God says! And God gave that land to the Jews! " After his impassioned outburst, the Christians by a nearly unanimous show of hands passed the resolution. (p.133). Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Armageddon theology of the New Christian Right propagated by certain TV evangelists, including possible presidential candidate Pat Robertson and politically active Jerry Falwell, along with Hal Lindsey's widely read The Late Great Planet Earth is reaching an estimated 60 million Americans, according to born-again Christian journalist Halsell (Soul Sister. During two of Falwell's Holy Land tours, the author interviewed fundamentalist members, all of whom believed that we must fulfill the biblical prophecy of fighting World War III preparatory to Christ's Second Coming. Most disquieting, if one credits Halsell's evidence and conclusions, is her discussion of an alliance of the New Christian Right and militant Zionists who share a common belief and enthusiasm for a global holocaust. Alarming, too, is the extent of the political influence of these evangelists, the Israeli lobby and PACs, along with the author's assertion that Reagan's policies regarding military spending and disarmament are largely subject to his alleged belief in the inevitability of a God-willed nuclear war.
Add this copy of Prophecy and Politics: Militant Evangelists on the Road to cart. $131.25, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Lawrence HIll.