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A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition - A History of the Culture Wars (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition - A History of the Culture Wars (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National
Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, "There is a religious war going
on for the soul of our country," his audience knew what he was
talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout the
previous decade and would continue until the century's end, pitting
conservative and religious Americans against their liberal, secular
fellow citizens. It was an era marked by polarization and posturing
fueled by deep-rooted anger and insecurity. Buchanan's fiery speech
marked a high point in the culture wars, but as Andrew Hartman
shows in this richly analytical history, their roots lay farther
back, in the tumult of the 1960s--and their significance is much
greater than generally assumed. Far more than a mere sideshow or
shouting match, the culture wars, Hartman argues, were the very
public face of America's struggle over the unprecedented social
changes of the period, as the cluster of social norms that had long
governed American life began to give way to a new openness to
different ideas, identities, and articulations of what it meant to
be an American. The hot-button issues like abortion, affirmative
action, art, censorship, feminism, and homosexuality that dominated
politics in the period were symptoms of the larger struggle, as
conservative Americans slowly began to acknowledge--if initially
through rejection--many fundamental transformations of American
life. As an ever-more partisan but also an ever-more diverse and
accepting America continues to find its way in a changing world, A
War for the Soul of America reminds us of how we got here, and what
all the shouting has really been about.
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