It’s December 8; 1941… The day after Pearl Harbor… The Nazis have the A-bomb… We don’t. Washington D.C. and Manhattan disappear beneath nuclear mushroom clouds. Stripped of its congress; judicial and executive branches; the United States is a fractured; frantic shell of its former self; each state; a world unto its own. Germany threatens further attacks on major American cities like Chicago; Miami and Pittsburgh. To save countless innocent civilian lives; Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; sole survivor of FDR's cabinet and America's first woman president; bends to Adolf Hitler’s neutrality demand. Powerless and impotent; America watches from the sidelines while Europe and Asia go up in flames. In search of a cause to unite America once again as a nation; the “Sons of Liberty;†a distant echo of our nation’s revolutionary war volunteers; secretly band together again; in the south this time; led by take-no-prisoners; General George S. Patton himself. And in doing so; he calls upon a group of ordinary citizens; including ex-Pan Am pilot Sam Carter and Hollywood has-been Ava James; to embark on a series of missions that; if successful; will deliver America from its darkest hour and set it on a path toward the bright light of victory. The odds are impossible; the missions dangerous; and with an unknown spy in their midst threatening to wreck their intricate plans; everything seems doomed from the start as they struggle to bring America back into the fight for liberty and justice for all.
#374118 in Books Abingdon Press 2017-02-07 2017-02-07Original language:English 8.50 x .38 x 5.50l; .40 #File Name: 1501832514152 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Amazing Work On Preaching As Anti-RacismBy CustomerFrom the book;Preaching that confronts racism: • Speaks up and speaks out. • Sees American racism as an opportunity for Christians honestly to name our sin and to engage in acts of detoxification; renovation; and reparation. • Is convinced that the deepest; most revolutionary response to the evil of racism is Jesus Christ; the one who demonstrates God for us and enables us to be for God. • Reclaims the church as a place of truth-telling; truth-embodiment; and truth enactment. • Allows the preacher to confess personal complicity in and to model continuing repentance for racism. • Brings the good news that Jesus Christ loves sinners; only sinners. • Enjoys the transformative power of God’s grace. • Listens to and learns from the best sociological; psychological; economic; artistic; and political insights on race in America; especially those generated by African Americans. • Celebrates the work in us and in our culture of a relentlessly salvific; redemptive Savior. • Uses the peculiar speech of scripture in judging and defeating the idea of white supremacy. • Is careful in its usage of color-oriented language and metaphors that may disparage blackness (like “washed my sins white as snow;†or “in him there is no darkness at allâ€). • Narrates contemporary Christians into the drama of salvation in Jesus Christ and thereby rescues them from the sinful narratives of American white supremacy. • Is not silenced because talk about race makes white Christians uncomfortable. • Refuses despair because of an abiding faith that God is able and that God will get the people and the world that God wants.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I came to the Will Willimon reading party late. ...By Todd RichardsI came to the Will Willimon reading party late. Hi latest boo; Who Lynched Willie Earle? is convicting; vulnerable; challenging; and instructive. It has given me insight into my own privilege and racism; and shown me where the Holy Spirit is working in me and in my preaching and teaching.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Superb insights by white minister into the sin of white ...By Karen BrananSuperb insights by white minister into the sin of white racism and what white churches need to do to confront and redeem it.
