God and Mammon, Lance Morrow
God and Mammon, Lance Morrow
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God and Mammon
Chronicles of American Money

Author: Lance Morrow

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 6 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/27/2020

Synopsis

This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World—about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mammon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (material, spiritual, cultural, psychological) worked to make America what it is. It traces the grand American binaries of success and failure to their theological origins in Calvinism's anxieties about salvation and damnation.

About Lance Morrow

Lance Morrow is an American essayist whose op ed articles appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal. He is the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. His essays and book reviews also appear in City Journal, the New York Times, and other publications. For many years he was an essayist for Time magazine. He is a winner of the National Magazine Award and the author of eight books, including Evil: An Investigation, The Best Year of Their Lives: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and John Kennedy in 1948, and two memoirs, The Chief and Heart. His essays have been collected in Fishing in the Tiber and Second Drafts of History.

Born in Philadelphia, the son of two journalists, Morrow grew up in Washington DC, and graduated from Harvard, magna cum laude in English literature. After a year as a reporter for the Washington Evening Star, he joined the staff of Time in New York. Morrow lives in upstate New York with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow. He has two sons, James and Justin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on January 12, 2021

This is a good time to read God and Mammon. It’s as up to date as can be, weaving the events of 2020 into analyses of personal lives, eras and theories of “What is America?” All of the current rhetoric on America’s soul and past is not “right” or “wrong.” It’s impossible to write a “fly on the wall”......more

Goodreads review by Jack on January 10, 2021

This is an intriguing exploration of the uneasy relationship between money (greed) and religion and, of course, politics in American history. With his fine prose, Lance Morrow tells us a good deal about ourselves in 2020 by reviewing where we have been in the last century or so. His career-long posi......more

Goodreads review by Terry on January 18, 2021

My father volunteered for half of his life in the grass, among the roots, to reform campaign finances in the state of California. He won–until the state supreme court declare corporations are people too. They have the right to fund politicians as much as they want. His little war against toxic capit......more

Goodreads review by Larry on October 28, 2021

Is Currency the Currency of American History? American history is complex and sometimes contradictory. The same can be said of money or wealth or, if you prefer, mammon. At times either can reflect virtue at its grandest. At other times either can reflect the basest of human motivations. In “God and......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 01, 2020

Lance morrow is such a great writer of our times. His articles always articulate a unique perspective on our current world. You can only smile and admit that he sees and captures the essence of our political system and wonder how you missed it. That being said, I had high expectations for this book.......more

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