Readings

Blankenhorn, David. Fatherless America: Confronting Our Nation’s Most Urgent Social Problem. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Gans, Herbert J. The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Fiske, John. Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Lakoff, George. Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don’t. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Jencks, Christopher. Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Katz, Michael B. The “Underclass” Debate: Views From History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Mingione, Enzo, ed. Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.

Quayle, Dan. “The Family Comes First: We Cannot Take Orders From Special Interests.” Vital Speeches of the Day 58. 15 September 1992: 711-12.

_____. Worth Fighting For. Nashville: Word Publishing, 1999.

Quayle Dan and Diane Medved. The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong. New York: Harper Collins, 1996.

Struening, K. New Family Values. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Williams, Mary E., ed. Culture Wars: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, Cal.: Greenhaven Press, 2003.

Audio-Visual Materials

Campaign ’92. Greenwood, IN: Educational Video Group, 1992. Video Recording.

Mannes, Elena. L.A. is Burning: Five Reports From a Divided City. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1993.

Pack, Michael. The Rodney King Incident: Race and Justice in America. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences: Distributed in association with Henninger Media, 1998. Video Recording.

On-Line Resources

“The Christian Right in American Politics.” PBS Think Tank with Ben Wattenburg, http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript118.html.

Jones, Susan. “Dan Quayle Revisits His ‘Murphy Brown’ Speech.” CNSNews.com, 9 May 2002, http://cnsnews.1038design.com/news/article/dan-quayle-revisits-his-murphy-brown-speech.

“Let’s Get Married.” PBS Frontline, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/marriage/.

“Remarks of Former Vice President Dan Quayle to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco,” C-SPAN,  http://www.c-span.org/video/?60051-1/family-values.

Last updated May 10, 2016