Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• I - Introduction 1
• Prologue - Stories from the Front 3
• 1 - Cultural Conflict in America 31
• 2 - The Anatomy of Cultural Conflict 52
• II - The New Lines of Conflict 65
• 3 - The Historical Roots of the Culture War 67
• 4 - Competing Moral Visions 107
• III - Cultural Warfare 133
• 5 - The Discourse of Adversaries 135
• 6 The Technology of Public Discourse 159
• IV - The Fields of Conflict 171
• Opening Observations 173
• 7 Family 176
• 8 - Education 197
• 9 - Media and the Arts 225
• 10 - Law 250
• 11 - Electoral Politics 272
• Parting Observations 288
• V - Toward Resolution 293
• 12 - Moral Pluralism and the Democratic Ideal 295
• Epilogue - Democratic Possibilities 318
• Notes 326
• Selected Bibliography 393
• Index 403

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