War without end
Subtitle: cultural conflict and the struggle for America's political future
By: Robert Shogan.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Culture conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Description: "America's culture war - which pits traditionalists, unrelenting defenders of the social orthodoxy, against modernists, agitators for social change - has simmered and seethed since the birth of the nation. But in the turbulent decade of the 1960s, the culture war erupted in the political arena, where it thunders on today.

War Without End examines how the evolution of cultural issues as political tools has rocked the balance of political power in America, from the period of the fractious 1968 presidential campaign to the contest for the White House and for the Congress in 2000.".

"Through an expansive coverage of events - from Vietnam, Nixon, discrimination, abortion, economic imbalance, and morality in political behavior - Washington journalist Robert Shogan provides an objective and informed look at how Americans feel about themselves and their country in the first decade of the new millenium while the culture war rages on."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Does the truth matter?"; title: God's own guerrilla; title: The minister's son; title: Day of judgment; title: Roots of upheaval; title: Eve of destruction; title: The guardian; title: The whole world is watching; title: Unblack, unyoung, and unpoor; title: The return of the righteous; title: The city on a hill; title: "The Christians are coming"; title: The prince of compassion; title: The faith that failed; title: The Forty Years' War.