November 6, 1998
Scholar's Book Rides the Historical Coattails of Family Values
Rebecca Edwards isn't eager to theorize about it on television again, but her research into the role of gender in 19th-century American politics may help to explain the recent sex scandal in the White House.
"The centrality of the family to party politics goes way back," says Ms. Edwards, an assistant professor of history at Vassar College. "Family values" have long been important in the nation's political discourse, she says, "and
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