The perfect moment God, sex, art, and the birth of America's culture wars
"It's 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 America's future...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Curtain speech: The American experiment at war with itself
- Ent'racte: Get the books out!
- Act I: Dirty pictures. Oh, freedom, over me
- Meet me at the foot of the cross
- The sacred and profane art machine
- The scales of our worth
- The perfect moment
- Serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
- Bear witness
- There is no sin in Cincinnati; or, in which Dennis Barrie is fucked
- Act II: Unspeakable acts. A dog without warning
- Three trials...
- ... And a lawsuit
- The vision thing
- Soft power
- Cue the rhinoceros
- The shocking thing you do
- The grand finale
- Epilogue: Again as farce
- Curtain call.
