{"product_id":"roseanne-heather-keaton-9798188708184","title":"Roseanne: Morality Under Pressure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoseanne never lied to you.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile other sitcoms of the era sold comfortable fiction; that hard work always pays off and that good choices guarantee good outcomes. The Conner household told the truth: sometimes you celebrate a stranger's misplaced credit card before you remember that you are not the kind of family that does that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoseanne: Morality Under Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e argues that this wasn't hypocrisy. It was the most honest moral framework television ever put on screen. Built not in spite of poverty, but inside it, where every value comes with a price tag and every lesson taught to a child is a bet against impossible odds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the show from its 1988 debut through its devastating reboot as \u003ci\u003eThe Conners\u003c\/i\u003e, using the Conner family as a case study in how scarcity shapes cognition, parenting, solidarity, and love. It follows Darlene into her mother's role, into a cafeteria uniform, into a mortgage that never should have existed, and asks the question the original show forced America to sit with, \"What happens when you raise your children right, and the system breaks anyway?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart cultural history, part psychological case study, part elegy for the American working class: \u003ci\u003eRoseanne: Morality Under Pressure\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that dignity isn't the reward for surviving scarcity, it is what survives it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather Keaton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798188708184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Heather Keaton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665960145151,"sku":"9798188708184","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roseanne-heather-keaton-9798188708184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}