The Left at War

Informationen zum Autor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Klappentext A devastating account of the American left during wartime! and at war with itself Zusammenfassung Revisits the major intellectual debates and key players of two decades! covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq! and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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A devastating account of the American left during wartime, and at war with itself

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Revisits the major intellectual debates and key players of two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in the United States over foreign policy from the Balkans to 9/11 to Iraq, and over domestic policy from the culture wars of the 1990s to the question of what (if anything) is the matter with Kansas.

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Acknowledgments vii; Introduction: On Time 1; 1. Nowhere Left to Go 11; 2. Root Causes 55; 3. Iraq: The Hard Road to Debacle 130; 4. Cultural Studies and Political Crisis 208; 5. What is this "Cultural" in Cultural Studies? 285; Conclusion: Equality and Freedom 343; Notes 350; Works Cited 416; Index 000; About the Author 452