All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Self, Robert O.
All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Self, Robert O.

All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs...
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Self, Robert O.

All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

¥5,222
All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s by Self, Robert O.

All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

¥5,222
Author: Robert O. Self
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of family values and promised to keep government out of Americans' lives. Again and again, 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. The award-winning historian Robert O. Self is the first to argue that the separate threads of that realignment--from civil rights to women's rights, from the antiwar movement to Nixon's silent majority, from the abortion wars to gay marriage, from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policies--all ran through the politicized American family.

Based on an astonishing range of sources, All in the Family rethinks an entire era. Self opens his narrative with the Great Society and its assumption of a white, patriotic, heterosexual man at the head of each family. Soon enough, civil rights activists, feminists, and gay rights activists, animated by broader visions of citizenship, began to fight for equal rights, protections, and opportunities. Led by Pauli Murray, Gloria Steinem, Harvey Milk, and Shirley Chisholm, among many others, they achieved lasting successes, including Roe v. Wade, antidiscrimination protections in the workplace, and a more inclusive idea of the American family.

Yet the establishment of new rights and the visibility of alternative families provoked, beginning in the 1970s, a furious conservative backlash. Politicians and activists on the right, most notably George Wallace, Phyllis Schlafly, Anita Bryant, and Jerry Falwell, built a political movement based on the perceived moral threat to the traditional family. Self writes that family values conservatives in fact paved the way for fiscal conservatives, who shared a belief in liberalism's invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagan's presidency united the two constituencies, which remain, even in these tumultuous times, the base of the Republican Party. All in the Family, an erudite, passionate, and persuasive explanation of our current political situation and how we arrived in it, will allow us to think anew about the last fifty years of American politics.

Author: Robert O. Self
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 09/17/2013
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.48d
ISBN: 9780809026746

About the Author

Robert O. Self is a professor of history at Brown University. His first book, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, won numerous awards, including the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.


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