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An incisive new book of unequaled historical scope studies this alluring but poisonous philosophy's hundred-year conquest of the institutions that shape the popular mind: art, music, architecture, film, and, of course, television. The vise-grip of moral relativism on American popular culture was not suddenly achieved in the 1960s.

The Age of Consent by Robert H. Knight