Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror Politics and Culture in Modern America Edward Baxter is one of

Edward Baxter is one of the foremost English translators of Jules Verne

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Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror Politics and Culture in Modern America Edward Baxter is one ofBeginning with the chaotic post World War I landscape, in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, Sacred Causes is a penetrating critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics. All the bloody regimes and movements of the twentieth century are masterfully captured here, from Stalin's Soviet Union, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain through to the modern scourge of terrorism.