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Nicholas Guyatt

Nicholas Guyatt, until recently an associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, is moving to the University of York next month. Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World appeared earlier this year.

From the London Review dated 15 November 2007

Blackberry Apocalypse

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Only a year ago, American evangelical Christians seemed more powerful than they had ever been. They had helped to re-elect George W. Bush in 2004, in spite of a rickety economy and the disastrous invasion of Iraq. They had waged a successful campaign in Washington to restrict access to late-term abortion. They had launched a series of ballot initiatives intended to prevent states or judges legalising gay marriage. And they had encouraged the Bush administration to appoint sympathetic justices to the Supreme Court. (In 2005, they secured their long-standing goal of a conservative majority on the court.) As the mid-term elections approached, worried liberals were warning that an American theocracy was just around the corner. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007)
  • Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World (2007)
  • Another American Century? The United States and the World Since 9/11 (2003)
  • The Absence of Peace: Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1998)

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