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Culture Wars and Enduring American Dilemmas / Irene Taviss Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Irene Taviss, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The idea of a culture war, or wars, has existed in America since the 1960s---an underlying ideological schism in our country that is responsible for the polarizing debates on everything from the separation of church and state, to abortion, to gay marriage, to affirmative action. Irene Taviss Thomson explores this notion by analyzing hundreds of articles addressing hot-button issues over two decades from four magazines: National Review, Time, The New Republic, and The Nation, as well as a wide array of other writings and statements from a substantial number of public intellectuals. What Thomson finds might surprise you: based on her research, there is no single cultural divide or cultural source that can account for the positions that have been adopted.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100892
- ISBN:
- 9780472900916
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