Sticky reputations
Subtitle: the politics of collective memory in midcentury America
By: edited by Gary Alan Fine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780415894982; 9780415894999; 9780203135969
Subjects: Politics and government; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Reputation; Public opinion
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.