Culture War: How the '90s Made Us Who We Are Today (Whether We Like It or Not)

ISBN-13: 9781476666198 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Telly Davidson

Opis

What didn't you like about the 1990s--the peace or the prosperity? Setting aside nostalgia for the end of the 20th century, this book takes a candid look at the decade after the Cold War and before 9/11, when America's culture war began with the election of a media-savvy, Baby Boomer president (and his liberal feminist wife). Bill Clinton's postmodern administration betokened gay equality, an education-based labor force and a race and gender-diverse workplace and government, panicking conservatives and sparking the 1994 Republican Revolution. Meanwhile, with the advent of the 24-hour cable news cycle and the Internet, a media "punditocracy" arose. Parsing every event from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, commentators and talk show hosts spun news, politics and pop culture until they became one thing. Begins with the "Red and Blue" partitioning of America that would nurture the Tea Party, and ends with the 9/11 attacks.