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Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (Great Questions in Politics Series)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.20973
EAN: 9780321276407
ISBN: 032127640X
Label: Longman
Manufacturer: Longman
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: July 14, 2004
Publisher: Longman
Studio: Longman
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Editorial Review:
Fiorina's text incorporates polling data with a compelling narrative to ridicule commonly-believed myths about American Politics.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - I completely disagree
I have had the opportunity to live in Boston then Dallas over the last 15+ years. Politically it's like living in two seperate countries.
I am liberal and can tell you for a fact that here in Dallas, I feel like I am living on another planet. I know a large number of people who actually believe a man built a big wooden boat (without the aid of Black and Decker) and put two of EVERY animal on it. They believe this without hesitation, even when I tell them there are over 30 million ... Read More
Rating:  - Come down to earth America
Sarah Palin is nominated for Vice President and evangelicals are going ga ga over the choice even though the woman has as much qualification for the job as the average church goer. But who cares this is the period of satisfying your biases through voting, vilifying the opposition with the kind of attacks that are based purely on personal attacks (see Swiftboating Kerry in 2004 and calling Obama a terrorist with Muslim background) while issues are hardly discussed. Here's a segment of the population ... Read More
Rating:  - A must read for life the modern voter.
This book was an assignment for my political science class, and I started it believing, as most do, that America was a deeply divided nation of red and blue states. However, this book brilliantly shattered my views by just giving me the data without too much political rhetoric behind it.
While some reviewers believe the author is a demonstrably biased "red-stater" I think that regardless of whether or not this is the case, it is irrelevant to the overall integrity of the book which does ... Read More
Rating:  - Culture War
It is a little hard to believe that our nation is not polarized; this book has the evidence to prove that wrong. It consists of evidence, such as graphs and charts, to prove that our country is not as polarized as the media makes it out to be. This book uses different polls, like the Gallup polls, to show that America is not greatly divided. The author argues that our nation is not divided between red and blue, but today has more of a centrist view. The author even uses key issues, like abortion and homosexuality, ... Read More
Rating: - Misleading
He works for the Hoover Institute...some of the findings seemed interpreted accordingly. The book didn't offer that much new that other political scientists haven't noted in the last decade. Party activists and other elites are more likely to be polarized. Aw, yeah! We learn that in Poli 100--American Politics. Correction, we teach that in the courses, when we talk about political participation. Right.
That said, this book is written primarily for laypeople or folks of the authors' particular political ... Read More
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