Because, depending on your politics, it documents either what’s exactly right or what’s exactly wrong with the general direction of this country! From either viewpoint, you’ll want to read the book. How civilization advances
Liberal victories created modern freedoms.
Conservatives tried to block voting by women, but lost. They tried to prevent couples from using birth control, but lost. They also tried to obstruct Social Security pensions — and to outlaw labor unions — and prevent unemployment compensation — and keep stores closed on the Sabbath — and sustain Prohibition of alcohol — and halt racial integration — and impose government-led prayer in school — and throw gays in prison — and defeat Medicare and Medicaid — and halt the sexual revolution — and block equal human rights laws — and censor sexy magazines, books and movies — and jail girls and doctors who end pregnancies — and ban liquor clubs and lotteries — and revoke the Affordable Care Act — and halt same-sex marriage. But they lost and lost.
This book shows how liberals struggled, sometimes for centuries, to overcome conservatives and improve life for humanity.
HURRAH FOR LIBERALS: How Progressives Defeated Conservatives to Create Democracy, Human Rights and Safe Modern Life. By James A. Haught
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