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By: ROBERT WUTHNOW
Price: $17.95
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr: 1998-02-01
Seller ID: 20070927123823
ISBN: 0691058954
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: New
The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow--not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working harder than ever, and yet many of us feel that we are not realizing our higher aspirations as individuals or as a people. Here Wuthnow examines the struggles in which American families are now engag...
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By: ROBERT WUTHNOW
Price: $5.75
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: April 1995
Seller ID: 20100125167870
ISBN: 0195096517
Binding: Paper Back
Condition: Used - Very Good
By: Robert Wuthnow
Price: $39.50
Publisher: Princeton University Press: August 2014
Seller ID: 116738
ISBN: 0691159890
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Tracing the intersection of religion, race, and power in Texas from Reconstruction through the rise of the Religious Right and the failed presidential bid of Governor Rick Perry, Rough Country illuminates American history since the Civil War in new ways, demonstrating that Texas's story is also America's. In particular, Robert Wuthnow shows how distinctions between "us" and "them" are perpetuated and why they are so often shaped by religion and politics.
Early settlers called Texas a rough country. Surviving there necessitated defining evil, fighting it, and building institutio...
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By: Robert Wuthnow
Price: $24.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2018
Seller ID: 158949
ISBN: 069117766X
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans
What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich portrait of the moral order--the interactions, loyalties, obligations, and identities--underpin...
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By: Wuthnow, Robert
Price: $39.95
Publisher: Princeton University Press: November 2011
Seller ID: 103557
ISBN: 0691150559
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. The Kansas Board of Education has repeatedly challenged the teaching of evolution, Kansas voters overwhelmingly passed a constitutional ban on gay marriage, the state is a hotbed of antiabortion protest--and churches have been involved in all of these efforts. Yet in 1867 suffragist Lucy Stone could plausibly proclaim that, in the cause of universal suffrage, "Kansas leads the world " How did Kansas...
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