Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction /
"Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion,' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, MD :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination
- The moral economy of opinion
- The political economy of opinion
- Partisan manufactories of public sentiment
- The importance of having opinion
- The fatal force of public opinion
- Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises
- Conclusion : corn-pone opinion
- Essay on sources.