Blessed Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815605080 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Blessed Assurance won the year's Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the South in 1986.. Blessed Assurance brilliantly examines this clash of spiritual visions as it presented itself repeatedly in the streets, churches, and corporate offices of Amarillo. Working alongside them were fundamentalist Christians who believed in inevitable catastrophe, and who testified to quite another, blessed, assurance of Divine rescue from the holocaust to come. In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. The voices that you hear in this book are those of the people of Amarillo speaking for themselves. This startling juxtaposition of apocalyptic and technocratic world views was not confined to Pantex. Through the lens of this particular city, she sought to focus on our adaptation as a nation to the threat of nuclear war.
jammer"The most wonderfully awful book I've ever read twice." according to jammer2099. I bought this book because I read it once long ago and I have told people it's the worst book I've ever read. It's so bad that people I've told about it wanted to read it too. Since I couldn't find a copy, I had to buy one. I reread it just to make sure that I was being honest about it. We know time changes perception. Holy cow Batman, it's as bad as I remember. It's so wonderfully bad that it's the book version of those cheesy 70s movies that become cult classics. The preface runs on and on and on and on. I'm . 099 said The most wonderfully awful book I've ever read twice.. I bought this book because I read it once long ago and I have told people it's the worst book I've ever read. It's so bad that people I've told about it wanted to read it too. Since I couldn't find a copy, I had to buy one. I reread it just to make sure that I was being honest about it. We know time changes perception. Holy cow Batman, it's as bad as I remember. It's so wonderfully bad that it's the book version of those cheesy 70s movies that become cult classics. The preface runs on and on and on and on. I'm . "Build the Bomb and Expect the End" according to Orville B. Jenkins. This readable, accomplished writer author deals with the presence of the Pantex plant in Amarillo, the only final assembly factory in the US for nuclear weapons, warheads and bombs. She presents this as a piece of investigative journalism, uncovering the background stories of some personalities involved, both individual and communal.Mojtabai explores, then analyzes the attitudes of local residents toward the plant. She analyzes in some detail the personal and group philosophies of war, peace, safety, and the fu. Compelling Story for Everyone I first read this book in college in a theory of religion class. But don't be put off by that. This is the story of the people in Amarillo TX who build nuclear warheads. Most of the community are born-again Christians who are Rapturists -- they welcome the end of the world. Their story is contrasted with those people in the town and all over who are against nuclear war. It is an unbelievable sociological tale, and Mojtabai writes with compelling impartiality. She tells the whole story in a way that reads like o
An understated yet forceful account of how one town rationalizes its support of the ultimate weapon of death. Randy Dykhuis, Grace A. Dow Memorial Lib., Midland, Mich.Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Mojtabai conveys the essence of those beliefs in clear, concise prose. The bulk of the book is made up of her exploration of the fascinating, sometimes bizarre, eschatological beliefs of the many fundamentalist sects in Amarillo. In this highly readable work, Mojtabai ( Mundome and other novels) brings to light the pervasiveness of apocalyptic themes in the minds of Amarillo's inhabitants. From Library Journal Amarillo is home to Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United S