{"product_id":"american-contradiction-paul-starr-9780300282436","title":"American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the country that came to elect Obama could also elect Trump\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama twice--and then elect Donald Trump twice? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 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. Our nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset by a contradiction between a changing people and an old nation, a nation with entrenched institutions that have empowered those who fear the changes and look to restore an old America of their imagining. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Starr tells this history from the dual standpoints of the progressive movements that changed the American people and of the movements reacting to them. Black Americans, he argues, served as a model minority, setting in motion America's twentieth-century revolutions in gender as well as race and rights. With industry's decline and the rise of economic inequality, millions of Americans have felt dispossessed and seek to bring the old America back. Trump is their revenge. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Contradiction\u003c\/i\u003e explains how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Starr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300282435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300282436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Paul Starr","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795550163199,"sku":"9780300282436","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3b698b5-ecc6-4221-9b70-919080ba8e57.jpg?v=1744947948","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-contradiction-paul-starr-9780300282436","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}