“This legislation has nothing to do with parental involvement,” said Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader. Friday’s vote followed a contentious 16-hour committee hearing and a bitter floor debate over the legislation, whose sponsor argued would “bring more transparency and accountability to education” and whose opponents derisively rebranded the “politics over parents act”.ĭemocrats argued that the bill would only serve to embolden a far-right movement that has pushed book bans, restrictions on the instruction of American history and turned classrooms into “ground zero” for conservative culture wars.
The debate took center stage in the House this week, where Republicans broke into cheers after narrowly advancing their “ Parents Bill of Rights”. In their telling, Republicans are the defenders of America’s schoolchildren whose education is threatened by a leftwing ideology that promotes activism, racial history and gender fluidity over academic outcomes.īut critics and many educators say conservatives are using the term “parents’ rights” as a guise to advance a rightwing education agenda that undermines public schools, whitewashes American history and marginalizes LGBTQ+ students. The nomination of McGovern was not assured, however, as others in the Democratic Party attempted to recruit Ted Kennedy to run or focused on George Wallace's perceived ability to win the South.With the 2024 election cycle looming, Republicans are leaning into the education culture wars, championing policies that they say will give parents more of a say in their children’s education, from the subjects they are taught to the books they read, with hopes of appealing to suburban voters who recoiled from the party during the Trump years. Dismissing 1968 Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey as a "hopeless old hack" and presumed nominee Senator Edmund Muskie, whose campaign Thompson says exudes a "stench of death", Thompson was vindicated in his choice of McGovern. “A self-described political junkie, Thompson fixes his sights early on McGovern as the candidate to whom he will attach himself. Rubbing and wear to edges and small bumps to corners. Book is moderately square and has been read. Previously owned by David Klein, noted journalist and author. Edge wear with chipping, wrinkling, and tears, some light loss, fraying to spine ends and corners rubbing and scuffs. Original black boards boards, stamped in white, in original unclipped ($6.95) first-state dust-jacket, with the white border around the rear photo.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
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