Sticky Reputations

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.

"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? Whyin 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"--

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