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It is a prehistory of the seismic social changes of the last hundred years, from women's suffrage and the civil rights movement to the sexual revolution and marriage equality, as well as of the forces that push in the opposite direction, toward chauvinism and bigotry.

This book is about women and men who found themselves on the front lines of the greatest moral battle of our time: the struggle to prove that -- despite differences of skin color, gender, ability, or custom -- humanity is one undivided thing.
It tells the story of globalists in an era of nationalism and social division and the origins of an outlook that we now label modern and open-minded.

At stake were the consequences of an astonishing discovery: that our distant ancestors, at some point in their evolution, invented a thing we call culture.

Reading this again as I chose it for our next read in our book group. I loved it.