The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann and Cornel West

ISBN 10: 0395891698 / ISBN 13: 9780395891698

Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1998

About this Item

First printing, full number line. Signed by both authors on the title page: "Sylvia Ann Hewlett / Love, Cornel West." The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $24.00); an "Autographed / WordsWorth Books" sticker on the front panel; Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395891698
• ISBN 13: 9780395891698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, noted feminist scholar and child advocate, and Cornel West, Harvard philosopher and well-known human rights leader, join in a rare partnership to explore one of the most painful problem of our times. Why are hundreds of thousands of American children "dangling and dangerous" and millions more failing to thrive? At the heart of our children's agony is a frightening erosion of the parenting role - not because parents are less devoted than they used to be but because the whole world is stacked against them. Big business, government, and the wider culture are waging a silent war against parents, undermining the work they do. Adults raising children have been harmed by managerial greed, pounded by tax and housing policy, and invaded and degraded by the entertainment industry. In The War Against Parents, Hewlett and West present a blueprint for parent empowerment, which they call a G.I. Bill for the Twenty-first Century. United behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class. The War Against Parents is both a visionary and an intimate book. Hewlett and West explore their childhoods -- strangely similar stories of growing up in family-centered blue-collar communities in Wales and California -- and with striking candor tell of their struggles to be a good mother and a good father in our parent-hurting society. Lending moral heft to the work parents do, Hewlett and West provide comfort and hope. There is not a parent among us who is not hungry for such healing.

About the Author

Cornel West, "the preeminent African- American intellectual of our generation" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.), is author of Race Matters (Beacon hardcover 0-8070-0918-0 / $15.00), a New York Times bestseller for ten weeks. He is a university professor at Harvard University, lectures widely, and lives in the Boston area.<br /><br />Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and author of several books, including the award-winning When the Bough Breaks. Founder and President of the National Parenting Association, she lectures widely thoughout the country. She currently lives in New York City.