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A Troubled Birth - The 1930s and American Public Opinion (Hardcover)
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A Troubled Birth - The 1930s and American Public Opinion (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Studies in American Politics (CHUP)
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Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls
failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this
because we no longer understand what the American public is? In A
Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst argues that we need to return to
earlier meanings of "public opinion" to understand our current
climate. Herbst contends that the idea that there was a
public-whose opinions mattered-emerged during the Great Depression,
with the diffusion of radio, the devastating impact of the economic
collapse on so many people, the appearance of professional
pollsters, and Franklin Roosevelt's powerful rhetoric. She argues
that public opinion about issues can only be seen as a messy
mixture of culture, politics, and economics-in short, all the
things that influence how people live. Herbst deftly pins down
contours of public opinion in new ways and explores what endures
and what doesn't in the extraordinarily troubled, polarized, and
hyper-mediated present. Before we can ask the most important
questions about public opinion in American democracy today, we must
reckon yet again with the politics and culture of the 1930s.
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