Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-380) and index.
Contents
I: America's war on its children -- 1. Kids, the enemy within -- 2. Life in the war zone -- 3. Accounting for the kids -- II: The contemporary political field -- 4. Neoliberalism -- 5. The new conservatism -- 6. Liberalism and the left -- 7. Kids out of time (unsettling modernity) -- III: The coming American modernity -- 8. The struggle for "American modernity" -- 9. Reconstructing political culture -- 10. Reconstructing economic life -- 11. Reconstructing cultural life -- Kids and the dilemma of American politics.