Contemporary American Politics and Society: Issues and Controversies
- ISBN-10
- 0761940960
- ISBN-13
- 9780761940968
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 278
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-02-24
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Author
- Robert Singh
Description
`For those who still believe that politics is normally, naturally, about economics, Rob Singh has gathered the evidence and dialed the wake-up call: seven major instances of an ongoing culture war meet a common analytic framework here in a lively and informative fashion' - Byron E Shafer, University of Wisconsin
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