Sticky Reputations (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Collective Memory in Midcentury America
Redaktion: Fine, Gary

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Produktbeschreibung

Sticky Reputations examines the changes in American politics from the Depression to the Age of Consensus, analyzing how the range of political options narrowed in the period. In the course of this analysis, the author examines those "sticky reputations" of figures whose reputation is so solidified that an attack on their reputation in turn affects the reputation of the person who presents an alternative perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136485657
• Artikelnr.: 38270633

Autorenporträt

Gary Alan Fine is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. During 2010-2011 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also the author of Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Chaining of Social Problems: Solutions and Unintended Consequences in the Age of Betrayal 2. The Cultural Frameworks of Prejudice: Reputational Images and the Postwar Disjuncture of Jews and Communism 3. Erasing the Brown Scare: Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates 4. The Construction of Historical Equivalence: Weighing the Red and Brown Scares 5. Romancing the Red: Pete Seeger and the Purification of Difficult Reputations 6. Notorious Support: The America First Committee and the Personalization of Policy 7. An Isolationist Blacklist?: Lillian Gish and the America First Committee 8. Honest Brokers: The Politics of Expertise in the Who Lost China Debate 9. Sticky Reputations: Adolf Hitler and the Stigma of Memory Work

Rezensionen

"With this masterful book, Gary Fine solidifies his own reputation as the leading scholar of reputation studies. Fine provides a historical panorama of how and when reputations flourish or sink, shedding light on our current age of celebrity cult(ure). Anyone interested in the intersection of politics and culture will find this a vital resource."

-Daniel Levy, Sociology, SUNY-Stony Brook

"Gary Fine has done it again! Because this stunning book reveals the sociological dynamics of historical reputation, no one interested in America's past, especially the middle decades of the twentieth century, can afford to ignore it. Indeed, no one can read Sticky Reputations without new understandings of social issues, politics, and the making of history itself."

-Barry Schwartz, Sociology, University of Georgia

"Gary Fine argues that reputations depend on the work of cultural "entrepreneurs," people who work to establish or transform the public image of public figures. But he shows here that attempting to diminish a hero or vindicate a villain can be just as consequential for the entrepreneur as it is for the public figure (who, in many cases, is long dead). Together with his previous book on Difficult Reputations, Sticky Reputations defines its field."

-Jeffrey Olick, Sociology, University of Virginia