Conspiracy theory in America [[electronic resource] /] / Lance deHaven-Smith |
Autore | DeHaven-Smith Lance |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.10973 |
Collana | Discovering America |
Soggetto topico |
Conspiracies - United States - History
Conspiracy theories - United States - History Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-292-74911-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""List of Illustrations and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: High-Crime Blind""; ""1. The Conspiracy-Theory Label""; ""2. The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief""; ""3. Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences""; ""4. The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy""; ""5. State Crimes against Democracy""; ""6. Restoring American Democracy""; ""Appendix: CIA Dispatch #1035-960""; ""Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452756403321 |
DeHaven-Smith Lance | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conspiracy theory in America [[electronic resource] /] / Lance deHaven-Smith |
Autore | DeHaven-Smith Lance |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.10973 |
Collana | Discovering America |
Soggetto topico |
Conspiracies - United States - History
Conspiracy theories - United States - History Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century |
ISBN | 0-292-74911-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""List of Illustrations and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: High-Crime Blind""; ""1. The Conspiracy-Theory Label""; ""2. The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief""; ""3. Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences""; ""4. The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy""; ""5. State Crimes against Democracy""; ""6. Restoring American Democracy""; ""Appendix: CIA Dispatch #1035-960""; ""Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779540803321 |
DeHaven-Smith Lance | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Conspiracy theory in America / / Lance deHaven-Smith |
Autore | DeHaven-Smith Lance |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina | 364.10973 |
Collana | Discovering America |
Soggetto topico |
Conspiracies - United States - History
Conspiracy theories - United States - History Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century |
ISBN | 0-292-74911-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""List of Illustrations and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: High-Crime Blind""; ""1. The Conspiracy-Theory Label""; ""2. The American Tradition of Conspiracy Belief""; ""3. Conspiracy Denial in the Social Sciences""; ""4. The Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy""; ""5. State Crimes against Democracy""; ""6. Restoring American Democracy""; ""Appendix: CIA Dispatch #1035-960""; ""Tables""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825494503321 |
DeHaven-Smith Lance | ||
Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America / / edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene ; contributors, Gavin Benke [and twelve others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.931 |
Soggetto topico |
Political culture - United States - History - 21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence Political satire, American Mass media - Political aspects - United States American wit and humor - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture and Post-9/11 Politics; Part One First Responders; Chapter One Everything Changes Forever (Temporarily): Late-Night Television Comedy after 9/11; Chaper Two "Where Was King Kong When We needed Him?": Public Discourse, Digital Disaster Jokes, and the Functions of Laughter after 9/11; Chapter Three "The Arab Is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony & Tragedy of 9/11; Chapter Four Humor, Terror, and Dissent: The Onion after 9/11; Part Two Enter the "War on Terror"
Chapter Five Laughs, Tears, and Breakfast Cereals: Rethinking Trauma and Post-9/11 Politics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChapter Six Republican Decline and Culture Wars in 9/11 Humor; Chapter Seven Critique, Counternarratives, and Ironic Intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert; Chapter Eight Humoring 9/11 Skepticism; Part Three Rethinking Post-9/11 Politics; Chapter Nine Laughing Doves: U.S. Antiwar Satire from Niagara to Fallujah; Chapter Ten "Hummer Rhymes with Dumber": Neoliberalism, Irony, and the Cartoons of Jeff Danziger Chapter Eleven Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Enron, Humor, and Political EconomyChapter Twelve What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?: Toward an Ethics of Humor for the Digital Age; Coda: Humor, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458034703321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America / / edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene ; contributors, Gavin Benke [and twelve others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.931 |
Soggetto topico |
Political culture - United States - History - 21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence Political satire, American Mass media - Political aspects - United States American wit and humor - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture and Post-9/11 Politics; Part One First Responders; Chapter One Everything Changes Forever (Temporarily): Late-Night Television Comedy after 9/11; Chaper Two "Where Was King Kong When We needed Him?": Public Discourse, Digital Disaster Jokes, and the Functions of Laughter after 9/11; Chapter Three "The Arab Is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony & Tragedy of 9/11; Chapter Four Humor, Terror, and Dissent: The Onion after 9/11; Part Two Enter the "War on Terror"
Chapter Five Laughs, Tears, and Breakfast Cereals: Rethinking Trauma and Post-9/11 Politics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChapter Six Republican Decline and Culture Wars in 9/11 Humor; Chapter Seven Critique, Counternarratives, and Ironic Intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert; Chapter Eight Humoring 9/11 Skepticism; Part Three Rethinking Post-9/11 Politics; Chapter Nine Laughing Doves: U.S. Antiwar Satire from Niagara to Fallujah; Chapter Ten "Hummer Rhymes with Dumber": Neoliberalism, Irony, and the Cartoons of Jeff Danziger Chapter Eleven Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Enron, Humor, and Political EconomyChapter Twelve What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?: Toward an Ethics of Humor for the Digital Age; Coda: Humor, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781862103321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America / / edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene ; contributors, Gavin Benke [and twelve others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (481 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.931 |
Soggetto topico |
Political culture - United States - History - 21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence Political satire, American Mass media - Political aspects - United States American wit and humor - History and criticism |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture and Post-9/11 Politics; Part One First Responders; Chapter One Everything Changes Forever (Temporarily): Late-Night Television Comedy after 9/11; Chaper Two "Where Was King Kong When We needed Him?": Public Discourse, Digital Disaster Jokes, and the Functions of Laughter after 9/11; Chapter Three "The Arab Is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony & Tragedy of 9/11; Chapter Four Humor, Terror, and Dissent: The Onion after 9/11; Part Two Enter the "War on Terror"
Chapter Five Laughs, Tears, and Breakfast Cereals: Rethinking Trauma and Post-9/11 Politics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChapter Six Republican Decline and Culture Wars in 9/11 Humor; Chapter Seven Critique, Counternarratives, and Ironic Intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert; Chapter Eight Humoring 9/11 Skepticism; Part Three Rethinking Post-9/11 Politics; Chapter Nine Laughing Doves: U.S. Antiwar Satire from Niagara to Fallujah; Chapter Ten "Hummer Rhymes with Dumber": Neoliberalism, Irony, and the Cartoons of Jeff Danziger Chapter Eleven Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Enron, Humor, and Political EconomyChapter Twelve What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?: Toward an Ethics of Humor for the Digital Age; Coda: Humor, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816525003321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Democracy for hire : a history of American political consulting / / Dennis W. Johnson |
Autore | Johnson Dennis W. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 324.0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Political consultants - United States - History - 20th century
Political consultants - United States - History - 21st century Public relations and politics - United States - History - 20th century Public relations and politics - United States - History - 21sth century Political campaigns - United States - History - 20th century Political campaigns - United States - History - 21st century Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century |
ISBN |
0-19-027271-6
0-19-027272-4 0-19-027270-8 |
Classificazione | POL007000POL008000POL043000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: EARLY BUSINESS OF POLITICAL CONSULTING, 1930s-1960s -- Ch. 1 In the Beginning, Whitaker & Baxter -- Ch. 2 Measuring Public Opinion, Private and Public Pollsters -- Ch. 3 Radio, Television and Campaigning, 1920s-1960 -- Ch. 4 The Pioneers -- Ch. 5 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1964 and 1968, and Consulting Abroad -- PART 2: THE EXPANSION AND GROWTH OF CONSULTING, 1970s-1980s -- Ch. 6 Money, Campaigns and the Next Generation of Consultants -- Ch. 7 Evolution of Polling -- Ch. 8 The Media Revolution -- Ch. 9 Voter Contact: Targeting, Direct Mail, and Phone Banks -- Ch. 10 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1972, 1976, and 1980 -- Ch. 11 Consulting, Ballot Issues and Local Government -- Ch. 12 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1984 and 1988 -- PART 3: TRANSFORMATION OF CONSULTING AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD, 1990 - PRESENT -- Ch. 13 New Generation of Consultants -- Ch. 14 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 1992 and 1996 -- Ch. 15 Technological Advances -- Ch. 16 Issue Campaigns and Government Affairs; Consultants Going Corporate -- Ch. 17 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 2000 and 2004 -- Ch. 18 Consulting Internationally -- Ch. 19 Consultants and Presidential Campaigns, 2008 and 2012 -- Ch. 20 Outside Groups, Plutocrats and Dark Money; Consultants and the 2016 Presidential Campaign -- Ch. 21 Political Consulting Today -- Appendix A: Key Consultants and Senior Advisers for Presidential Candidates, 1952-2016 -- Appendix B: American Association of Political Consultants Hall of Fame Inductees -- Notes -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154685903321 |
Johnson Dennis W. | ||
New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fever swamp : a journey through the strange Neverland of the 2016 presidential race / / Richard North Patterson |
Autore | Patterson Richard North |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Quercus, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 448 pages) |
Disciplina | 324/.973 |
Soggetto topico |
Presidents - United States - Election - 2016
Political culture - United States - History - 21st century Political campaigns - United States - History - 21st century Presidential candidates - United States - History - 21st century Essays LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections Political campaigns Political culture Presidential candidates Presidents - Election |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-68144-162-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Plutocrats, birthers, climate deniers, a reality star, a Socialist from Vermont, a scrum of candidates killing each other, and an entire political party gone mad. The faux humility of Dr. Ben Carson ; The shallow salesmanship of Carly Fiorina ; Marco Rubio's empty suit ; Ted Cruz ; The Biden dilemma ; The paradox of Bernie Sanders ; Trump's character is his fate ; Debating Hillary Clinton ; Plutocrats and their pets ; The GOP's faith-based climate ; Fun questions for the next GOP debate ; The GOP's tax warfare ; Ted Cruz's holiday spirit ; The GOP establishment's not so happy new year ; Dog whistles and hypocrisy -- Primaries, guns, the court, Bernie vs. Hillary, the rise of Trump, and the collapse of the GOP establishment. The rise of the unfit ; Hillary, Bernie, and the future of the court ; The GOP's super doomsday ; The GOP's morning after ; The GOP's strongman syndrome ; An open letter to my Republican friends ; Partners in death; The reckoning of 2016 ; The sound and fury of Donald Trump ; Closing polls and slamming doors ; Why Bernie lost-- and what to do about it -- The Donald, Hillary, narcissism, racism, political insanity, and the surprising fatefulness of two conventions. Why Hillary Clinton ; Too sick to lead ; From golden boy to fool's gold ; The 2016 veepstakes ; Kidnapped by a narcissist ; The GOP reaps the whirlwind ; Leading the lemmings ; A tale of two conventions ; America meets Hillary Clinton -- Russian hackers, a media awakening, videotapes, charges of groping, claims of voter fraud, three debates, a dogged Democrat, and a GOP candidate cracking up until an FBI director throws him a lifeline. Coming this fall ; The fateful August of Donald J. Trump ; Trump 3.0 ; Public disservice ; Clinton vs. Trump ; Turning point ; Losing it ; Beyond debate ; Apocalypse soon ; Making America hate again ; Hillary Clinton's final test -- The very last scary days, an election filled with dread, and an extremely sober national reckoning. The imperative of voting for Hillary Clinton ; Where does America go now?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910160301503321 |
Patterson Richard North | ||
New York : , : Quercus, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Polarization and the presidency : from FDR to Barack Obama / / Robert C. Smith, Richard A. Seltzer |
Autore | Smith Robert C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Polarization (Social sciences) - United States
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century Presidents - United States - History - 20th century Presidents - United States - History - 21st century |
ISBN | 1-62637-241-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Polarization and the Presidency -- 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 3. Harry S. Truman -- 4. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 5. John F. Kennedy -- 6. Lyndon B. Johnson -- 8. Richard Nixon -- 9. The Election of 1972 -- 10. Jimmy Carter -- 11. Ronald Reagan -- 12. George H. W. Bush -- 13. Bill Clinton -- 14. George W. Bush -- 15. Barack Obama -- 16. What Next? -- Appendix: Methodological Considerations -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797737403321 |
Smith Robert C. | ||
Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Polarization and the presidency : from FDR to Barack Obama / / Robert C. Smith, Richard A. Seltzer |
Autore | Smith Robert C (Robert Charles), <1947-2023, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
Disciplina | 973.92 |
Soggetto topico |
Polarization (Social sciences) - United States
Political culture - United States - History - 20th century Political culture - United States - History - 21st century Presidents - United States - History - 20th century Presidents - United States - History - 21st century |
ISBN | 1-62637-241-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Polarization and the Presidency -- 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- 3. Harry S. Truman -- 4. Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 5. John F. Kennedy -- 6. Lyndon B. Johnson -- 8. Richard Nixon -- 9. The Election of 1972 -- 10. Jimmy Carter -- 11. Ronald Reagan -- 12. George H. W. Bush -- 13. Bill Clinton -- 14. George W. Bush -- 15. Barack Obama -- 16. What Next? -- Appendix: Methodological Considerations -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820832503321 |
Smith Robert C (Robert Charles), <1947-2023, > | ||
Boulder, Colorado : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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