Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

Jeff Sharlet, a Visiting Research Scholar at New York University?s Center for Religion and Media, is the author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. His longer essay on Pegler, ?Paradise Shot to Hell: The Westbrook Pegler Story,? is included in Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahey. You can download a PDF of it here. Kathryn Joyce is the author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and many other publications.