Fault Lines Quotes

“In many ways, these three basic “fault lines” of division—the economic, racial, and political lines Obama outlined, plus a fourth line on gender and sexuality—had always been part of the national experience. For much of the twentieth century, however, strong centripetal forces pushed back against these traditional sources of discord and tension.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

“With a wide-angle lens, this book traces the political, economic, racial, and sexual divisions in modern America, but also the cultural and technological changes that confronted and contorted the country along the way. Following these fault lines, in both senses of the term, we examine the history of our divided America.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

“The new ethnic politics is a direct challenge to the WASP conception of America,” the Slovak American intellectual Michael Novak noted in his 1972 book, The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics.”
― Kevin M. Kruse, Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974