Is There a Culture War: A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life

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In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two. People are passionately choosing sides on contentious issues such as the invasion of Iraq, gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to die, and the battle over abortion continues unabated. In Is There a Culture War two of Americas leading authorities on political culture lead a provocative and thoughtful investigation of this question and its ramifications.

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"Essential for serious academic collections." Scott H. Silverman, Bryn Mawr College, Library Journal, 1/15/2007

"This collection of essays is a valuable contribution to the conversation concerning the notion of culture war in the United States. It would be useful as a text for a graduate seminar dealing with the religion and society of culture and politics." Journal of Church and State, 5/1/2007

"Two important essays focus on the existence or nonexistence of a culture war....Comments on the essays from historian Gertrude Himmelfarb and political scientist Morris P. Fiorina, and additional responses from Hunter and Wolfe, provide a rich debate. Highly recommended." CHOICE, 6/1/2007

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James Davison Hunter is the William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, where he is also executive director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Among his several books is The Death of Character: On Moral Education of America's Children (Basic Books, 2000). Alan Wolfe is a professor of political science at Boston College, where he directs the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is the author of numberous books, most recently Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It (Princeton, 2005).