A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion Herbst Susan
A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion Herbst Susan We need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has…
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A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion Herbst Susan
We need to go back to the beginning of the idea of "public opinion" and a mass public to understand what the American public has become.Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. 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. Is this because we no longer understand what the American public is?
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