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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hartman, Andrew
Titre(s) : A war for the soul of America [Texte imprimé] : a history of the culture wars / Andrew Hartman
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Description matérielle : 342 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; The sixties as liberation ; The neoconservative Kulturkämpfe ;
Taking God's country back ; The color line ; The trouble with gender ; The sacred
and the profane ; God, state, and curriculum ; The battle for the American mind
; The contested American past ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Conflit culturel -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Changement social -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Problèmes sociaux -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226254500. - ISBN 022625450X. - ISBN 9780226254647 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44442152j
Notice n° :
FRBNF44442152
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