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. All in the Family is a revelatory narrative about the activism on the left and the right that reshaped postwar America. With authority and nuance, Self shows that when we disagree about gender, sex, and family, we are really disagreeing about equality, power, and money - in essence, about the nature and role of government itself. As Mark Schmitt put it in his glowing review in The Washington Monthly, Self, by demonstrating that economic and social issues are one in the same, has rewritten recent American political history "from its most basic assumptions."
- ISBN10 0809026740
- ISBN13 9780809026746
- Publish Date 17 September 2013 (first published 18 September 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 528
- Language English