MitgliedJeffSharlet

I will write something once I've added some books.

I'm the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper, 2008), coauthor with Peter Manseau of Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible (Free Press, 2004), and coeditor of Believer, Beware: First Person Dispatches from Killing the Buddha (Beacon, 2009). I'm currently working on a book about protest music and the decline of the American Left for Basic Books' "Basic Ideas" series. I'm also a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone and an associate research scholar at the NYU Center for Religion and Media. Bookish jobs in the past: National Yiddish Book Center; humanities reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education; library aide.