A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture …
"A lively chronicle. . . . Mr. Hartman's book makes two major contributions. The first is his framing of the culture wars debate from its earliest days. . . . His second major contribution is his conclusion that the culture wars are over."
"As a guide to the late twentieth-century culture wars, Hartman is unrivalled. . . . Incisive portraits of individual players in the culture wars dramas. . . . Reading Hartman sometimes feels like debriefing with friends after a raucous night out, an experience punctuated by laughter, head-scratching, and moments of regret for the excesses involved."
"A provocative review of a formative epoch."
"A valuable addition to the growing body of literature historicizing the post-Sixties era. . . . Classic intellectual history. . . . Thoughtful and thought-provoking."
"An unparalleled guide . . . making sense of the polarized politics that have plagued the USA for the past four decades. . . . Hartman's central point is that the debates were deadly serious, asking fundamental questions abotu who we are as a nation, and about who we want to be. . . . In his efforts to provide an overview and explanation of the culture wars, Hartman is to date without peer."
"Hartman's text is nothing less than required reading on the culture wars, their history, and their impact on American public life."
"The frist book to tell the story of this war in all its diversity. . . . Hartman, to his credit, insists that the issues at stake in cultural politics are 'real and compelling.' . . . His affections clearly rest with the liberals, but he is generally nonpoloemical in his accounts of the two sides."
"Andrew Hartman has worked with a deft hand and a keen mind to give us an absorbing account of the last half-century of culture wars in the United States. By digging far beneath the cross-fire style of political rhetoric that bombards us today, Hartman shows how the seismic changes in American society, most notably in the struggle to create a more equal and inclusive democracy, unleashed a fierce conservative attempt to hold on to a world that was escaping their grip."
"Whatever happened to the culture wars? Americans don't argue the way they used to, at least not over hot-button cultural issues like same-sex marriage and abortion. Andrew Hartman has produced both a history and a eulogy, providing a new and compelling explanation for the rise and fall of the culture wars. But don't celebrate too soon. On the ashes of the culture wars, we've built a bleak and acquisitive country dedicated to individual freedom over social democracy. Anyone who wants to take account of the culture wars--or to wrestle with their complicated legacy--will also have to grapple with this important book."
"A War for the Soul of America illuminates the most contentious issues of the last half of the twentieth century. In lively, elegant prose, Andrew Hartman explains how and why the consensus that appeared to permeate the nation following World War II frayed and fractured so dramatically in the 1960s. With keen insight and analysis, he shows that the Culture Wars were not marginal distractions from the main issues of the day. Rather, they were profound struggles over the very foundation of what it meant to be an American. In tracing the history of those conflicts over the last half of the twentieth century, Hartman provides a new understanding of the tensions and processes that transformed the nation."
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- Opinion | Harris can end the Trump-Vance culture wars. Heres how. - The Washington Post - September 16th, 2024 [September 16th, 2024]
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- America is over the Moms For Liberty culture wars - The Hill - September 14th, 2024 [September 14th, 2024]
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- A Wave Thats on the Decline? Trump to Talk to Parents Leading the Culture Wars. - The New York Times - September 6th, 2024 [September 6th, 2024]
- Nigel Biggar: Only Badenoch grasps the importance of fighting the culture wars - ConservativeHome - September 6th, 2024 [September 6th, 2024]
- The General v. the Pope opens a new front in Italys culture wars - Crux Now - September 6th, 2024 [September 6th, 2024]
- Episode 674: NT WrightPastoring in a Partisan Age: Part 5. Why Christians Have Bought Into The Culture Wars, How the Gospel is Political, and Advice... - September 6th, 2024 [September 6th, 2024]
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- Robert Jenrick is wrong about the culture wars - The Spectator - September 6th, 2024 [September 6th, 2024]
- Back-to-school plans impacted by culture wars nationwide - ABC News - August 16th, 2024 [August 16th, 2024]
- Part 2: Story Circles Politics, Culture Wars, and Distrust of Government - Daily Yonder - August 16th, 2024 [August 16th, 2024]
- I cycled 4,000 miles across the US and learnt about culture wars in the pub - inews - August 16th, 2024 [August 16th, 2024]
- School board primaries reflect the culture wars going on nationwide - WUSF - August 16th, 2024 [August 16th, 2024]
- The culture wars have reached the countryside but Radio 4 only got under the topsoil - The Telegraph - August 14th, 2024 [August 14th, 2024]
- The 2024 Paris Olympics Has Been Flooded With Culture Wars - Junkee - August 14th, 2024 [August 14th, 2024]
- Republican Events - Culture Wars: The Axis Club supporting BANNERS - Olean Times Herald - August 14th, 2024 [August 14th, 2024]
- How the culture wars poisoned American politics and how to fix it | On Point - WBUR News - August 11th, 2024 [August 11th, 2024]
- Dont let our culture wars steal the joy from the Olympics and Team USAs success | Politi - NJ.com - August 11th, 2024 [August 11th, 2024]
- Public libraries are at the center of culture wars - WCVB Boston - August 11th, 2024 [August 11th, 2024]
- How to end America's 'culture wars' - WBUR News - August 11th, 2024 [August 11th, 2024]
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- Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars? - The Economist - July 6th, 2024 [July 6th, 2024]
- Britain's Imperial Past Has Become a Battleground in the Culture Wars - New Lines Magazine - July 6th, 2024 [July 6th, 2024]
- Culture wars spark again as House weighs massive defense policy bill - The Washington Post - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
- Gaza and the End of the Culture War as We Know It - New Lines Magazine - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
- Exclusive: Keir Starmer Says He Will End Tory Culture Wars If He Becomes Prime Minister - Yahoo Movies UK - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
- A new Disney ride opens June 28, splashing right out of the culture wars - KSL.com - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
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- A new Disney ride opens soon, splashing right out of the culture wars - The Albany Herald - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
- Keir Starmer will not end the culture war - Spiked - June 12th, 2024 [June 12th, 2024]
- On culture wars and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Left - Catholic World Report - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- Culture wars replacing fiscal discipline as calling card of today's GOP - Villages-News - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- Back to Back's Multiple Bad Things takes a sophisticated look at the moral ambiguities of today's 'culture wars' - The Conversation - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- Book Review: So you think the culture wars are new? Shakespeare expert James Shapiro begs to differ - The Caledonian-Record - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- Majority of AAPI adults support teaching history of racism in schools, new poll finds - The Christian Science Monitor - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- Michele Tafoya Breaks Down The Butker Brouhaha: 'The Culture Wars Are Running Deep' - The Daily Wire - June 2nd, 2024 [June 2nd, 2024]
- In the Alabama Legislature, it's culture wars first, retirees second Alabama Reflector - Alabama Reflector - May 23rd, 2024 [May 23rd, 2024]
- Let's take cycling out of the culture wars - PoliticsHome - May 23rd, 2024 [May 23rd, 2024]
- Elon Musk and the Signal vs. Telegram debate - Fortune - May 23rd, 2024 [May 23rd, 2024]
- The myth of progressive Catholicism - The New Statesman - May 23rd, 2024 [May 23rd, 2024]
- Plant-based meat alternatives are trying to exit culture wars an impossible task? - Japan Today - May 20th, 2024 [May 20th, 2024]
- Friday essay: 'me against you' Jon Ronson investigates the perpetual outrage of the culture wars - The Conversation - May 20th, 2024 [May 20th, 2024]
- Plant-based meat alternatives are trying to exit the culture wars an impossible task? - The Conversation - May 20th, 2024 [May 20th, 2024]