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Description: An essential guide to political, social, and cultural issues in modern America, Culture Wars offers objective, balanced coverage of the ideologies, institutions, and individuals that divide Democrats and Republicans, liberal and conservatives, red state and blue states, church and state, pro-choice and pro-life groups, and special interests of many stripes. Expansive and up-to-date, this unique reference presents historical and biographical background in unfailingly neutral terms, enabling readers to grasp complex cultural concepts, debate contemporary issues with the necessary factual background, and understand current events in full historical context. Contents include approximately 600 A-Z entries, more than 80 photos, cross-reference hyperlinks, a Topic Finder, further reading lists for individual entries, and a master bibliography.
ContentsIntroduction: Culture Wars in America—Rhetoric and Reality A-Z Entries Master Bibliography A-Z Entries
Abortion
Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
Academic Bill of Rights
Academic Freedom
Adler, Mortimer J.
Affirmative Action
Afrocentrism
Age Discrimination
Agnew, Spiro T.
AIDS
Alexander, Jane
Ali, Muhammad
American Century
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Religion
American Exceptionalism
American Indian Movement
Americans with Disabilities Act
Androgyny
Angelou, Maya
Animal Rights
Anti-Intellectualism
Anti-Semitism
Arnold, Ron
Arrow, Tre
Aryan Nations
Atwater, Lee
Automobile Safety
Baez, Joan
Bankruptcy Reform
Barbie Doll
Battle of Seattle
Beauty Pageants
Beck, Glenn
Behe, Michael J. Bell Curve, The
Bennett, William J.
Biafra, Jello
Biotech Revolution
Birth Control
Black Panther Party
Black Radical Congress
Blackface
Bob Jones University
Bono
Book Banning
Boy Scouts of America
Bradley, Bill
Brock, David
Brokaw, Tom
Brown, Helen Gurley Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Bryant, Anita
Buchanan, Pat
Buckley, William F., Jr.
Budenz, Louis F.
Bullard, Robert D.
Bunche, Ralph
Bush Family
Busing, School
Byrd, Robert C.
Campaign Finance Reform
Campolo, Anthony “Tony”
Canada
Capital Punishment
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Catholic Church
Censorship
Central Intelligence Agency
Chambers, Whittaker
Charter Schools
Chávez, César
Cheney Family
Chicago Seven
Chick, Jack
China
Chisholm, Shirley
Chomsky, Noam
Christian Coalition
Christian Radio
Christian Reconstructionism
Christmas
Church and State
Churchill, Ward
Civil Rights Movement
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Clinton Impeachment
Cold War
Colson, Chuck
Columbus Day
Comic Books
Comic Strips
Commager, Henry Steele
Common Cause
Commoner, Barry
Communists and Communism
Comparable Worth
Compassionate Conservatism
Confederate Flag
Conspiracy Theories
Contemporary Christian Music
Contract with America
Corporate Welfare
Coulter, Ann
Counterculture
Country Music
Creationism and Intelligent Design
Cronkite, Walter
Cuba
Culture Jamming
Dean, Howard
Dean, James
Dean, John
Deconstructionism
DeLay, Tom
Deloria, Vine, Jr.
Demjanjuk, John
Democratic Party
Diversity Training
Dobson, James
Donahue, Phil
Douglas, William O.
Dr. Phil Drudge Report
Drug Testing
D’Souza, Dinesh
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Dukakis, Michael
Duke, David
Dworkin, Andrea
Dylan, Bob
Earth Day
Ecoterrorism
Education Reform
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Election of 2000
Election of 2008
Endangered Species Act
English as the Official Language Enola Gay Exhibit
Environmental Movement
Equal Rights Amendment
Evangelicalism
Executive Compensation
Factory Farms
Faith-Based Programs
Falwell, Jerry
Family Values
Farrakhan, Louis
Federal Budget Deficit
Federal Communications Commission
Felt, W. Mark
Feminism, Second-Wave
Feminism, Third-Wave
Ferraro, Geraldine
Flag Desecration
Fleiss, Heidi
Flynt, Larry
Focus on the Family
Fonda, Jane
Food and Drug Administration
Ford, Gerald
Foreman, Dave
Forests, Parklands, and Federal Wilderness
Foucault, Michel
Founding Fathers
France
Frank, Barney
Franken, Al
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
Freedom of Information Act
Friedan, Betty
Friedman, Milton
Fundamentalism, Religious
Fur
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Gangs
Gay Capital
Gay Rights Movement
Gays in Popular Culture
Gays in the Military
Gender-Inclusive Language
Generations and Generational Conflict
Genetically Modified Foods
Gibson, Mel
Giffords (Gabrielle) Shooting
Gilmore, Gary
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsberg, Allen
Global Warming
Globalization
Goetz, Bernhard
Goldwater, Barry
González, Elián
Gore, Al
Graffiti
Graham, Billy
Great Books
Great Society
Guardian Angels
Gun Control
Guthrie, Woody, and Arlo Guthrie
Haley, Alex
Hall, Gus
Hargis, Billy
Harrington, Michael
Hart, Gary
Harvey, Paul
Hate Crimes
Hauerwas, Stanley
Hay, Harry
Hayden, Tom
Health Care
Heavy Metal
Hefner, Hugh
Heller, Joseph
Helms, Jesse
Heritage Foundation
Hightower, Jim
Hill, Anita
Hill, Julia “Butterfly”
Hillsdale College
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hispanic Americans
Hiss, Alger
Hoffman, Abbie
Hollywood Ten
Holocaust
Homeschooling
hooks, bell
Hoover, J. Edgar
Horowitz, David
Horton, Willie
Human Rights
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Hunter, James Davison
Huntington, Samuel P.
Hurricane Katrina
Hutchins, Robert M.
Illegal Immigrants
Immigration Policy
Indian Casinos
Indian Sport Mascots
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
Internet
Iran-Contra Affair
Irvine, Reed
Israel
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Michael
Japan
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jesus People Movement
John Birch Society
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jorgensen, Christine
Judicial Wars
Kennedy Family
Kerouac, Jack
Kerry, John
Kevorkian, Jack
Keyes, Alan
King, Billie Jean
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Rodney
Kinsey, Alfred
Klein, Naomi
Koop, C. Everett
Kristol, Irving, and Bill Kristol
Krugman, Paul
Kubrick, Stanley
Kushner, Tony
Kwanzaa
Kyoto Protocol
La Follette, Robert, Jr.
La Raza Unida
Labor Unions
LaHaye, Tim, and Beverly LaHaye
Lapin, Daniel
LaRouche, Lyndon H., Jr.
Lear, Norman
Leary, Timothy
Lee, Spike
LeMay, Curtis
Leopold, Aldo
Lesbians
Lewis, Bernard
Liddy, G. Gordon
Limbaugh, Rush
Literature, Film, and Drama
Lott, Trent
Love Canal
Loving, Richard, and Mildred Loving
Lynching
MacKinnon, Catharine
Madonna
Mailer, Norman
Malcolm X
Manson, Marilyn
Mapplethorpe, Robert
Marriage Names
Marxism
McCain, John
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthyism
McCloskey, Deirdre
McGovern, George
McIntire, Carl
McLuhan, Marshall
McVeigh, Timothy
Mead, Margaret
Media Bias
Medical Malpractice
Medical Marijuana
Medved, Michael
Men’s Movement
Mexico
Microsoft
Migrant Labor
Militia Movement
Milk, Harvey
Millett, Kate
Million Man March
Miranda Rights
Mondale, Walter
Montana Freemen
Moore, Michael
Moore, Roy S.
Moral Majority
Morgan, Robin
Morrison, Toni
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Motion Picture Association of America
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Ms.
Multicultural Conservatism
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Studies
Mumford, Lewis
Murdoch, Rupert
Murrow, Edward R.
Muslim Americans
My Lai Massacre
Nader, Ralph Nation, The
Nation of Islam
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Organization for Women
National Public Radio National Review
National Rifle Association
Nelson, Willie
Neoconservatism
Neoliberalism
New Age Movement
New Deal
New Journalism
New Left New York Times, The
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nixon, Richard
Norquist, Grover
North, Oliver
Not Dead Yet
Nuclear Age
Obama, Barack
Obesity Epidemic
Occupational Safety
O’Connor, Sandra Day
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray
Operation Rescue
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
O’Reilly, Bill
Outing
Packwood, Bob
Paglia, Camille
Palin, Sarah
Parks, Rosa
Penn, Sean
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Perot, H. Ross
Phelps, Fred
Philadelphia, Mississippi
Pipes, Richard, and Daniel Pipes
Planned Parenthood
Podhoretz, Norman
Police Abuse
Political Correctness
Pornography
Postmodernism
Premillennial Dispensationalism
Presidential Pardons
Prison Reform
Privacy Rights
Privatization
Progressive Christians Uniting
Promise Keepers
Public Broadcasting Service
Punk Rock
Quayle, Dan
Race
Racial Profiling
Rand, Ayn
Rap Music
Rather, Dan
Reagan, Ronald
Record Warning Labels
Red and Blue States
Redford, Robert
Redneck
Reed, Ralph
Rehnquist, William H.
Relativism, Moral
Religious Right
Reparations, Japanese Internment
Republican Party
Revisionist History
Right to Counsel
Right to Die
Robertson, Pat
Rock and Roll
Rockwell, George Lincoln
Rockwell, Norman
Rodman, Dennis Roe v. Wade (1973)
Rosenberg, Julius, and Ethel Rosenberg
Rove, Karl
Ruby Ridge Incident
Rudolph, Eric
Rusher, William A.
Ryan, George
Said, Edward
Same-Sex Marriage
Sanders, Bernie
Saudi Arabia
Schaeffer, Francis
Schiavo, Terri
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
School of the Americas
School Prayer
School Shootings
School Vouchers
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Science Wars
Secular Humanism
Seeger, Pete
September 11
September 11 Memorial
Serrano, Andres
Sex Education
Sex Offenders
Sexual Assault
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Revolution
Sharpton, Al
Sheen, Fulton J.
Shelley, Martha
Shepard, Matthew
Shock Jocks
Sider, Ron
Silent Majority
Simpson (O.J.) Trial Simpsons, The
Smoking in Public
Socarides, Charles
Social Security
Sodomy Laws
Sokal Affair
Soros, George
Southern Baptist Convention
Soviet Union and Russia
Sowell, Thomas
Speech Codes
Spock, Benjamin
Springsteen, Bruce
Starr, Kenneth
Stay-at-Home Mothers
Steinbeck, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stem-Cell Research
Stern, Howard
Stewart, Jon
Stone, Oliver
Stonewall Rebellion
Strategic Defense Initiative
Strauss, Leo
Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Student Conservatives
Students for a Democratic Society
Summers, Lawrence
Supply-Side Economics
Symbionese Liberation Army
Taft, Robert A.
Talk Radio
Tax Reform
Tea Party
Televangelism
Teller, Edward
Ten Commandments
Terkel, Studs
Thanksgiving Day
Think Tanks
Third Parties
Thomas, Clarence
Thompson, Hunter S.
Three Mile Island Accident
Thurmond, Strom
Till, Emmett
Tobacco Settlements
Tort Reform
Transgender Movement
Truman, Harry S.
Turner, Ted
Twenty-Second Amendment
Unabomber
United Nations
USA PATRIOT Act
Vaccination
Ventura, Jesse
Victimhood
Vidal, Gore
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam War
Vigilantism
Voegelin, Eric
Voting Rights Act
Waco Siege Wall Street Journal, The
Wallace, George
Wallis, Jim
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney Company
War on Drugs
War on Poverty
War Powers Act
War Protesters
War Toys
Warhol, Andy
Warren, Earl
Warren, Rick Washington Times, The
Watergate
Watt, James
Watts and Los Angeles Riots, 1965 and 1992
Wayne, John
Wealth Gap Weekly Standard, The
Welfare Reform
Wellstone, Paul
West, Cornel
Weyrich, Paul M.
Whistleblowers
White, Reggie
White Supremacists
Wildmon, Donald
Will, George
Williams, William Appleman
Wilson, Edmund
Winfrey, Oprah
Wolf, Naomi
Wolfe, Tom
Women in the Military
Women’s Studies
Woodward, Bob World
World Council of Churches
World War II Memorial
Wounded Knee Incident
Young, Neil
Zappa, Frank
Zero Tolerance
Zinn, Howard Master Bibliography
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