Article: The idol state.(Michael Burleigh's book entitled "Sacred Causes")(Book review)

SACRED CAUSES by MICHAEL BURLEIGH HarperCollins, 557 pages, $27.95

ONE OF BRITAIN'S LEADING and most popular historians, Michael Burleigh made his mark producing award-winning documentaries and books on Nazi euthanasia. In 2000 he published The Third Reich: A New History, which quickly won the Samuel Johnson Prize (one of Britain's highest literary awards), was translated into fifteen languages, and became an instant classic.

After a five-year sabbatical of research and writing, Burleigh has returned, producing a major two-volume history of church-state relations, from the French Revolution to the present. The first volume of his labors, Earthly Powers, ...

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