The Eclipse of Equality : Arguing America on Meet the Press.
Material type: TextPublisher: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804786461Subject(s): Equality -- United States | Meet the press (Television program) | Political culture -- United States | Public opinion -- United States | Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States | Social conflict -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Eclipse of Equality : Arguing America on Meet the PressDDC classification: 305.5 LOC classification: HN90Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Nothing Is More Important: Arguing America -- 2. Basically Totally Dysfunctional: The Rhetorical Roots of Protracted Social Conflict -- 3. Spreading Democracy Around the World: A World Made Safe for Private Enterprise -- 4. Taking Aim at the New Deal: To Restore the Idea of America -- 5. That Redemption We Dream Of: The Tangle of Intolerances -- 6. The Gravest Problem: Reds, Rackets, and the Unmaking of the Democratic Class Struggle -- 7. Conclusion: To Clarify American Opinion -- Epilogue: If It's Sunday, It's 'Meet the Press' -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.
To understand American politics, it is essential to understand our disparate political tendencies as they have played out in public debate. Uncovering how and why certain arguments have been persuasive over the last decades--as set forth on Meet the Press, the longest running political roundtable--Simmons chronicles the defining political debates of the 20th century.
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