A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion

by Susan Herbst

Book Overview

Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer understand what the American public is? In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst argues that we need to return to earlier meanings of "public opinion" to understand our current climate.

Herbst contends that the idea that there was a public--whose opinions mattered--emerged during the Great Depression,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022681291X
• ISBN13: 9780226812915
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"