Product Description
by James a. Haught (Author)
Conservatives tried to block voting by women, but lost. They also tried to prevent couples from using birth control - and to obstruct Social Security pensions - and to outlaw labor unions - and prevent unemployment compensation - and keep stores closed on the Sabbath - and sustain Prohibition of alcohol - and halt racial integration - and impose government-led prayer in school - and throw gays in prison - and defeat Medicare and Medicaid - and halt the sexual revolution - and block equal human rights laws - and censor sexy magazines, books and movies - and jail girls and doctors who end pregnancies - and ban liquor clubs and lotteries - and revoke the Affordable Care Act - and halt same-sex marriage. But they lost and lost. This book shows how liberals struggled, sometimes for centuries, to overcome conservatives and improve life for humanity.
Author Biography
James A. Haught is longtime editor of West Virginia's largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail, where he has won two dozen national newswriting awards. He has written eleven books and 100 magazine essays. He is in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Contemporary Authors, and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. In 2015, he wrote three columns about the historic record of liberal political victories that transformed Western civilization and established today's society. The columns were distributed by two syndicates in appeared in a total of 130 U.S. newspapers. They became the foundation of this book.
