Michael Schudson Books
The Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life
In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or even think they should. Is popular sovereignty a fail...
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This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective?news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic,...
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