A War for the Soul of America

The “unrivaled” history of America’s divided politics, now in a fully updated edition that examines the rise of Trump—and what comes next ( New Republic ). When it was published in 2015, Andrew Hartman’s history of the culture wars was widely praised for its compelling and even-handed account of how they came to define American politics at the close of the twentieth century. But it also garnered attention for Hartman’s declaration that the culture wars were over—and that the left had won. In the