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The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, And The Birth Of AmericaS Culture Wars
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The PrizeWinning Author Of The Method Reveals The Forgotten Origins Of AmericaS Culture WarsA Story Of Late 20Th Century Art Vs. Censorship, Brimming With Intense Drama And Fierce Moral Urgency.ItS 1988, The Final Year Of The Reagan Presidency, And The Curtain Is Closing On The Cold War. In The Absence Of External Adversaries, The American Public Is On The Precipice Of War With Itself. The Religious Right, Newly Ascendant And Emboldened, Is Determined To Seize Control Of AmericaS Future. And The First Battles Will Be Fought Over, Of All Things, Contemporary Art.In The Perfect Moment, Cultural Historian Isaac Butler Reexamines This Pivotal, Misunderstood American Era. Archconservatives Like Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan, And Pat Robertson Fixed Their Sights On Artists Including Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, And Karen Finley, Capitalizing On The Provocative Politics Of Their Work To Stir A Nascent Evangelical Coalition Into Moral Panic. It Was At This Moment, Butler Argues, That The Far Right Perfected The Tactics It Still Uses Today To Whip Its Base Into FrenzyFrom Banning Books And Sanitizing American History, To Spreading Medical Misinformation. All Too Relevant Today, The Perfect Moment Is An Incisive And Meticulously Researched Account Of This Crucial Period And A Stirring Ode To The Power Of The Creative Spirit.
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