Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)

Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections) The Battles That Define America from Jefferson's Heresies to Gay Marriage

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Publisher's Synopsis

"In this timely, carefully reasoned social history of the United States, the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One places today's heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious versus secular to reveal how, ultimately, liberals always win.Though they may seem to be dividing the country irreparably, today's heated cultural and political battles between right and left, Progressives and Tea Party, religious and secular are far from unprecedented. In this engaging and important work, Stephen Prothero reframes the current debate, viewing it as the latest in a number of flashpoints that have shaped our national identity. Prothero takes us on a lively tour through time, bringing into focus the election of 1800, which pitted Calvinists and Federalists against Jeffersonians and "infidels;" the Protestants' campaign against Catholics in the mid-nineteenth

Book information

ISBN: 9780061571299
Publisher: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 306.20973
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 326
Weight: -1g