Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

Title: Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America Author: Jane Borden ISBN: 9781668007808 Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers Published: 2025 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher American History 1673962 Publisher Description: For readers of Fantasyland and Cultish, a colorful and enlightening pop history that explains why the eccentric doomsday beliefs of our Puritan founders are still driving American culture today, contextualizes the current rise in far-right extremism as a natural result of our latent indoctrination, and proposes that the United States is the largest cult of all. Since the Mayflower sidled up to Plymouth Rock, cult ideology has been ingrained in the DNA of the United States. In this eye-opening book, journalist Jane Borden argues that Puritan doomsday belief never went away; it went secular and became American cultur