{"id":6732,"date":"2006-07-21T12:04:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/damonology.html"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:04:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:04:44","slug":"damonology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/07\/damonology.html","title":{"rendered":"Damonology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember Damon Linker? The former First Things<\/em> staffer who wrote that New Republic <\/em>cover story on Fr. Richard John Neuhuas, The Absolutist?<\/a> In which Neuhaus Threatens Your Freedom? <\/p>\n

(The article was much discussed here and at the American Scene, and Linker himself entered both discussions.)<\/a><\/p>\n

We knew, of course, that Linker’s article was reflective of the subject of his forthcoming book The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rod Dreher reports on Fr. Neuhaus’ side of the story, which he writes in the current FT (not online)<\/a><\/p>\n

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A few weeks later, he told me he was thinking of writing a book about First Things and its editor in chief. He explained that the book would be a critical appreciation of the achievements of the magazine. I said I would be happy to cooperate with such a project but I didn’t think there would be enough interest in the subject to elicit a large advance from a publisher. Moreover, this would be a first book by a relatively unknown writer. In early December, he told me that several publishers had indicated intense interest in the book he was proposing and that Doubleday had offered an advance of $160,000.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Go to Rod’s for more, including Rod’s explanation of how many books Linker would have to sell to cover that advance and how odd it is that Doubleday would give an advance for a book on RJN.<\/p>\n

Well, I’d guess that since the book’s title hints at a wider subject (even if it doesn’t deliver on it), that scary concept has a lot of resonance today among, and does sell books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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