"Through an expansive coverage of events - from Vietnam, Nixon, discrimination, abortion, economic imbalance, and morality in political behavior - Washington journalist Robert Shogan provides an objective and informed look at how Americans feel about themselves and their country in the first decade of the new millennium. Updates to the paperback show how the culture war has reached new heights during the Bush presidency, with its emphasis on religion and the divisiveness stirred by its preemptive war against Iraq. Shogan also discusses the likely impact of cultural conflict on the 2004 campaign."--BOOK JACKET.