{"product_id":"american-contradiction-revolution-and-revenge-from-the-1950s-to-now","title":"American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHow did Americans come to elect Barack Obama‚Äïand then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. The nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and a resisting nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eStarr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements that emerged in response. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America‚Äôs twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry‚Äôs decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and want the old America back. Trump is their revenge. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Contradiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548210368797,"sku":"9780300282436","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780300282436.jpg?v=1761675839","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/american-contradiction-revolution-and-revenge-from-the-1950s-to-now","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}