Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Being Young Sucks"; Part I: America's War on Its Children; 1. Kids, the Enemy Within; New Rhetorics and Bad Behaviors; Discipline and Punish in Schools; Imprisoning Kids; Better Discipline through Chemistry; 2. Life in the War Zone; Generations of Kids; Misrepresenting Kids; Are the Kids All Right?; Follow the Money; What Did You Learn in School Today?; Has War Been Declared?; 3. Accounting for the Kids; Blaming the Media; Blaming Racism; Blaming the Parents
Blaming CapitalismBlaming the "Family Crisis"; Interlude: Telling Stories; Part II: The Contemporary Political Field; 4. Neoliberalism; Neoliberalism and Economic Theory; The Ideology and Spiritualization of the Free Market; The "New Economy"; 5. The New Conservatism; Getting Hold of the New Conservatism; Culture, Morality, and the Christian Right; Culture, Capitalism, and Neoconservatives; Building a New Conservative Movement; A New Conservative Revolution?; 6. Liberalism and the Left; Whose Left?; "We Already Know . . ."; "More Than You"; Truth and Strategy
7. Kids Out of Time (Unsettling Modernity)Blaming Progress; The Reinvention of Time and History; Kids Caught in the Crossfire; Struggles over Modernity; Part III: The Coming American Modernity; 8. The Struggle for "American Modernity"; The First American Modernity; The Second American Modernity; The Third American Modernity; 9. Reconstructing Political Culture; Politics and Liberal Modernity; Politics against Compromise; Affective Politics; Depoliticizing Politics; Rebuilding a Political Frontier; 10. Reconstructing Economic Life; Economic Struggles; Economic Realities
Economic Dreams of Modernity11. Reconstructing Cultural Life; The Culture Wars and the Attack on Knowledge; The Reinvention of Identity and Individuality; Remaking Kids in the Name of Modernity; Conclusion: Kids and the Dilemma of American Politics; Kids and the Struggle for Imagination; The Dilemma of American Politics; Detour: A Nation Divided?; The Dilemma of American Politics, Continued; Notes; Name Index; About the Author
