{"product_id":"all-in-the-family-the-realignment-of-american-democracy-since-the-1960s-9780809095025","title":"All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s  Lyndon Johnsons 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 nations 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 realignmentfrom civil rights to womens rights  from the antiwar movement to Nixons \"silent majority \" from the abortion wars to gay marriage  from the welfare state to neoliberal economic policiesall 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 liberalisms invasiveness but lacked a populist message. Reagans 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648105472053,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809095025","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809095025.jpg?v=1781709558","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/all-in-the-family-the-realignment-of-american-democracy-since-the-1960s-9780809095025","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}