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Why liberals win the culture wars (even when they lose elections) : the battles that define America from Jefferson's heresies to gay marriage /

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 h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prothero, Stephen R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Politics and culture > United States > History.
Christianity and politics > United States > History.
Culture conflict > United States > History.
Liberalism > United States > History.
RELIGION > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Conservatism & Liberalism.
HISTORY > Social History.
Table of Contents:
  • The culture wars cycle
  • The Jefferson wars
  • Anti-Catholicism
  • The Mormon question
  • Prohibition and pluralism
  • The contemporary culture wars
  • Will the culture wars ever end?