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The leader and the crowd : democracy in American public discourse, 1880-1941
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Leader, la folla, la democrazia nel discorso pubblico americano. English
Title
The leader and the crowd : democracy in American public discourse, 1880-1941 / Daria Frezza ; translated from the Italian by Martha King.
ISBN
9780820329130 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820329134 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
Physical Description
x, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"First published in Italian in 2001 as Il leader, la folla, la democrazia nel discorso pubblico americano: 1880-1941"--Acknowledgments.
Translated from the Italian.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 06, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-318) and index.
Contents
American democracy in the Gilded Age: the individual, the crowd, and the "people"
The language of race, the crowd, and the public in the progressive era
The mob stereotype
The paradox of a conformist democracy
Criticism of mass democracy after World War I
From the factory to the nation : leadership or domination
The international challenge
The defense of democracy.
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