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Sep 2020
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Part One: Focus on the Family: James Dob...

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Garrison Davis is joined by Robert Evans to discuss James Dobson and Focus on the Family.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/08/08/the-empire-built-on-family-faith/a2b300eb-25f8-4925-af24-ce076c620f51/
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20040130060421/http://www.salon.com/news/1998/07/09news2.html
  3. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/about/historical-timeline/
  4. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Focus-on-the-Family
  5. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1990-02-23-9001160138-story.html
  6. https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ngisc/members/dobson.html#:~:text=He%20served%20on%20the%20task,Delinquency%20Prevention%2C%201982%2D1984.
  7. https://www.frc.org/historymission
  8. https://www.amazon.com/New-Dare-Discipline-James-Dobson/dp/0842305068
  9. https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Gomorrah-Max-Blumenthal/dp/1568584172
  10. https://www.amazon.com/Stations-Cross-Adorno-Christian-Right/dp/0822325411#:~:text=In%20Stations%20of%20the%20Cross,the%20current%20U.S.%20political%20economy.&text=Adorno%E2%80%94can%20illuminate%20the%20political,aspect%20of%20contemporary%20American%20culture.
  11. https://www.amazon.com/James-Dobsons-War-America-Alexander-Moegerle/dp/157392122X

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