The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media AgeTransaction Publishers, 2011 M12 31 - 353 páginas Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped by the unpredictability of personalities and events. Underlying this apparent process of change, however, is a recurrent cycle of political themes and social attitudes, a pulse of politics that locks the process of choosing a president into a predictable pattern. In this bold and brilliant examination of modern presidential politics, James David Barber reveals the dynamics of this cycle and shows how the pattern of drift and reaction may be broken in this most critical of political choices. Barber probes beneath the surface of campaigns to detect a steady rhythm of major political motifs. The theory he advances in colorful narrative chapters is that three dominant themes-conflict, conscience, conciliation-recur in foreseeable twelve-year cycles. A combative campaign-Truman vs. Dewey in 1948-is followed four years later by a moral crusade-Eisenhower vs. Stevenson in 1952-which in turn is succeeded by a contest to unify the nation-the Eisenhower-Stevenson rematch in 1956. The pattern is then renewed: the fierce combat between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 was followed in 1964 by the contest of principle between Johnson and Goldwater. In 1968 Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey by promising to bring the nation together. Monitoring shifting national political moods is a new elite: the journalists. Barber makes the case that the party system, increasingly clumsy and inflexible, can no longer pick up the beat of politics. Instead it is through newspapers, magazines, and television that the main themes of a campaign are sounded, created, and destroyed. This new edition of The Pulse of Politics provides a timely guide to the themes of the 1992 presidential campaign and to future elections. It will be of special interest to political scientists, historians, media analysts, and journalists. |
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... mind . On the other hand , news made interesting by being unreal , as in warping and faking and feeling aside the truth , is a neurotic danger politics can best do without . All of us are tempted to escape from the awkward , depressing ...
... mind . On the other hand , news made interesting by being unreal , as in warping and faking and feeling aside the truth , is a neurotic danger politics can best do without . All of us are tempted to escape from the awkward , depressing ...
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... mind . As Francis Bacon put it , " We must gather from the whole store of things such as make most for the uses of life . " The standpoint is the present . The histories to follow are written from the perspective of politics as it has ...
... mind . As Francis Bacon put it , " We must gather from the whole store of things such as make most for the uses of life . " The standpoint is the present . The histories to follow are written from the perspective of politics as it has ...
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... mind- sets from their mentors . The old teach the young ; the new journalists adapt old story forms to new conditions . What is new is not mass communication as one of the major forces in politics , but rather its emergence to fill ...
... mind- sets from their mentors . The old teach the young ; the new journalists adapt old story forms to new conditions . What is new is not mass communication as one of the major forces in politics , but rather its emergence to fill ...
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... mind of his own . The journalist has to find news in the mate- rial available . He is significantly dependent on what he judges his audience wants to know and on what the candidate hands him to depict . But it is just that position as ...
... mind of his own . The journalist has to find news in the mate- rial available . He is significantly dependent on what he judges his audience wants to know and on what the candidate hands him to depict . But it is just that position as ...
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... mind do the contemporary composers of this drama inherit from their traditions ? Why have we come to tell the Presidential story as we do ? A solid starting point is the evident fact that we have transformed a quadrennial event into a ...
... mind do the contemporary composers of this drama inherit from their traditions ? Why have we come to tell the Presidential story as we do ? A solid starting point is the evident fact that we have transformed a quadrennial event into a ...
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Harry Truman 1948 | 47 |
John Kennedy 1960 | 64 |
George McGovern 1972 | 87 |
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIENCE | 105 |
Woodrow Wilson 1916 | 111 |
Wendell Willkie 1940 | 138 |
THE POLITICS OF CONCILIATION | 211 |
Warren Harding 1920 | 217 |
Franklin Roosevelt 1932 | 238 |
Dwight Eisenhower³ 1956 | 264 |
Richard Nixon 1968 | 287 |
A Vision Beyond the Myth | 311 |
A Note of Appreciation | 323 |
Index | 333 |
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The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age James David Barber Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
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