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6 juillet 2016
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Nathalie Massip, « Andrew Hartman, A War for the Soul of America. A History of the Culture Wars », L’Ordinaire des Amériques, ID : 10.4000/orda.2727
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Andrew Hartman’s War for the Soul of America is a welcome and long overdue analysis of the 1980s and 1990s culture wars, a series of conflicts over gender, race, religion, and education. The phenomenon was first theorized by James Davison Hunter in 1991 (Culture Wars. The Struggle to Define America). It was then decried by Morris Fiorina (Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America), and Alan Wolfe (One Nation After All), among others, who considered that the majority of Americans were moder...