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They insist they are just a band of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free companies. They declare to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious firm in Washington. They say they are not Christians, but simply believers. Behind the views at every Country wide Prayer Breakfast since 1953 has been the Family, an elite network focused on a religious beliefs of electric power for the powerful. Their goal is "Jesus plus little or nothing." Their method is backroom diplomacy. The Family is the startling storyline of how their trust—part free-market fundamentalism, part imperial ambition—has become interwoven with the affairs of countries around the world.