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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815011603321

Autore

Frezza Daria

Titolo

The leader and the crowd : democracy in American public discourse, 1880-1941 / / Daria Frezza ; translated from the Italian by Martha King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-55324-0

0-8203-3647-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Disciplina

973.8

Soggetti

Collective behavior - United States - History

Democracy - United States - History

Political leadership - United States - History

United States Politics and government 1865-1933

United States Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Italian.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.