LEADER 03028nam 2200541 450 001 9910554241503321 005 20220512163834.0 010 $a0-226-81307-X 024 7 $a10.7208/chicago/9780226813073 035 $a(CKB)5450000000362535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6710802 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6710802 035 $a(DE-B1597)609991 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226813073 035 $a(OCoLC)1285302741 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002755352 035 $a(EXLCZ)995450000000362535 100 $a20210825e20222021 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA troubled birth $ethe 1930s and American public opinion /$fSusan Herbst$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aChicago :$cThe University of Chicago Press,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) 225 1 $aChicago studies in American politics 225 1 $aChicago scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2021. 311 $a0-226-81310-X 311 $a0-226-81291-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1 Introduction: Birth of a Public -- $t2 President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist -- $t3 Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship -- $t4 A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World?s Fair -- $t5 Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly -- $t6 Interlude: A Depression Needn?t Be So Depressing -- $t7 Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 8 $aPollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer understand what the American public is? In this book, Susan Herbst argues that we need to return to earlier meanings of 'public opinion' to understand our current climate. Herbst contends that the idea that there was a public - whose opinions mattered - emerged during the Great Depression, with the diffusion of radio, the devastating impact of the economic collapse on so many people, the appearance of professional pollsters, and Franklin Roosevelt's powerful rhetoric. She argues that public opinion about issues can only be seen as a messy mixture of culture, politics, and economics - in short, all the things that influence how people live. 410 0$aChicago studies in American politics. 410 0$aChicago scholarship online. 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1929-1933 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1933-1945 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a303.3/80973 700 $aHerbst$b Susan$0541995 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554241503321 996 $aA Troubled Birth$92820132 997 $aUNINA