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From BBC Radio 4, this is Things Fell Apart.

Strange Tales from the culture wars. I'm John Ronson, a writer living in America, the land where culture wars begin.

And by culture wars, I mean the battle for dominance between conflicting values.

These wars can obsess us and consume our lives.

I'd been curious to learn how things fell apart

and so throughout this series I've been going back in history

to find the origin stories like the school textbook war that blew up a West Virginia

community in 1974.

Kedal County, West Virginia, there was violence today in the continuing demonstrations against the use of controversial

textbooks in the schools.

But this final episode is about today.

It's about how the school textbook wars are now so pervasive with a gravitational pull so strong

it feels like few things can escape them including while we were making this

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