All in the family : the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s

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Label

All in the family : the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s

Title remainder

the realignment of American democracy since the 1960s

Statement of responsibility

Robert O. Self

Creator

• Self, Robert O., 1968-

Subject

• Families -- Political aspects -- United States
• Politics and government
• Since 1945
• Social conditions
• Social values -- Political aspects
• Families -- Political aspects
• United States
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• Social values -- Political aspects -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Historians have sought to explain the nation's profound political realignment from the 1960s to the 2000s, five decades that witnessed the fracturing of liberalism and the rise of the conservative right. Self argues that the separate threads of that realignment-- from civil rights to women's rights, from abortion wars to gay marriage-- all ran through the politicized American family. This establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Self provides a passionate explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, allowing us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

320.50973/09045

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HN90.M6

LC item number

S437 2012

Literary form

non fiction