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050 00 $aHM1236$b.S75 2012
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245 00 $aSticky reputations :$bthe politics of collective memory in midcentury America /$cedited by Gary Alan Fine.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012.
300 $axxi, 215 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $a"Sticky Reputations focuses on reputational entrepreneurs and support groups shaping how we think of important figures, within a crucial period in American history - from the 1930s through the 1950s. Why are certain figures such as Adolf Hitler, Joe McCarthy, and Martin Luther King cemented into history unable to be challenged without reputational cost to the proposer of the alternative perspective? Why are the reputations of other political actors such as Harry Truman highly variable and changeable? Why in the 1930s was it widely believed that American Jews were linked to the Communist Party of America but by the 1950s this belief had largely vanished and was not longer a part of legitimate public discourse? This short, accessible book is ideal for use in undergraduate teaching in social movements, collective memory studies, political sociology, sociological social psychology, and other related courses"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States.
650 0 $aReputation$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States.$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aFine, Gary Alan.