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Hello Rachel. I notice few citations in your Substack posts. Is your book thoroughly cited? I enjoy reading your Substack - the information you share is uncommon, and you pose interesting hypotheses. Thank you.

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Is there a non Amazon way to purchase, I am very interested in this subject, just found you on psyop cinema, your two episodes there are right on the money.

The quilt this thread exists in, the dissolution of the family unit, has other threads, this is one of them, and an essential one. It radically impacted my childhood and is doing the same thing as an adult with a child.

So, I am right in the middle of it and finally getting some clarity on what happened to the American family.

My understanding is the antecedents of feminism and breaking up the family (and this needs to be put into context, for instance, families that lived in "company towns" had radical pressure on them, of course slave families did too; I am focusing on the post WWII attack on families, how to dial back that impending unity in a post war gold rush) go back to the burgeoning middle class and working class black families in the 50s.

There was an economic stability there that allowed for the so called "American Dream", stable jobs, stay at home mother, schools.

The first step was to create economic instability, challenge the expectations of the parents and then let them figure out what to do. This is going to result in disputes. And then the message, from publications and eventually government, if your man can't take care of you, we will, with welfare.

Don't laugh, whitey, you next. The 60s destroyed family relations and expectations to a degree never discussed in the glamorization of those times.

I could go on and on, there's so much to unpack there, and the bullets aren't coming from one shooter, there are paths of attack.

Looking forward to reading your book, I just don't want to buy it off of Amazon. Publisher have an option?

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