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David Domke and Kevin Coe. The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. NewYork, Oxford University Press, 2008, 231 pp., $30.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 19 532641 3.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker, For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book. Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2007, xiiD164 pp., $23 (Cloth), ISBN 978 0 8135 4200 3.
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