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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| Rating | : | 4.58 (527 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0061571296 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Carefully done and a pleasure to read.. Prothero At His Best Amazon Customer More even-handed than its title suggests, this book is a brilliant deconstruction of the fights that produced modern America. Ultimately, whether one laments or cheers the liberal victories Prothero documents, this book is necessary reading for anyone trying to make sense of our current religious and political culture.. but a good look at why conservatives who set themselves against popular Not as triumphal as the title sounds, but a good look at why conservatives who set themselves against popular culture and intone "Here I Stand!" are not necessarily doing what liberals assume they're doing.
Stephen Prothero is the New York Times bestselling author of Religious Literacy and God Is Not One and a professor of religion at Boston University. His work has been featured on the cover of TIME magazine, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, NPR, and other top national media outlets. Visit the author at st
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. Drawing on his impressive depth of knowledge and detailed research, he explains how competing religio
Prayer in public schools. Gay marriage…But for Prothero, that’s not quite how it works. The consistent - and losing - proposition in conservative thinking, Prothero argues, is a cultural one. Useful, instructive reading for all voters in the upcoming election.” (Kirkus (starred review))“A lively, highly readable, and thought-provoking analysis of how culture wars arise, how they are fought, and how they end. And he has a revelation: why Conservatives are the ones who generally initiate culture wars and why they invariably lose.” (The Boston Globe)“Americans typically think of the culture wars as a generally 50-50 battle of the past fifty years. Both sides can learn much from this volume.” (Douglas Laycock, University of Virginia Law School)“Shows how culture-wars battles