Successive generations have sought to reaffirm a sense of national identity and purpose by appealing to constitutional norms, defined on an official level by law and government. Public support, however, may depend more on messages delivered by the popular media. Muckraking novels, such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), debated federal economic regulation. Woman suffrage organizations produced films to counteract the harmful gender stereotypes of early comedies. Arguments over the enforcement of black civil rights in the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson took on new meaning when dramatized in popular novels.
From the founding of the United States to the present, Americans have been taught that even radical changes may be achieved through orderly constitutional procedures. How both elite and marginalized groups in American society have reaffirmed and communicated this faith in the first three decades of the twentieth century forms the central theme of this book.
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Successive generations have sought to reaffirm a sense of national identity and purpose by appealing to constitutional norms, defined on an official level by law and government. Public support, however, may depend more on messages delivered by the popular media. Muckraking novels, such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906), debated federal economic regulation. Woman suffrage organizations produced films to counteract the harmful gender stereotypes of early comedies. Arguments over the enforcement of black civil rights in the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson took on new meaning when dramatized in popular novels.
From the founding of the United States to the present, Americans have been taught that even radical changes may be achieved through orderly constitutional procedures. How both elite and marginalized groups in American society have reaffirmed and communicated this faith in the first three decades of the twentieth century forms the central theme of this book.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | September 2000 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | September 2000 |
Authors | Maxwell Bloomfield |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 224 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00304-0 |
Barcode | 9780674003040 |
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LSN | 0-674-00304-7 |