Consuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding, and the Youth Vote in America

by Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-Cassino

With an ongoing war overseas and the controversies of the Bush years, we might expect the young people of the 2000s to take to the streets as they did in the 1960s to vent their political frustrations at the failures of the political system. But the angry youth, though, just don't seem to be there anymore. And while they can be mobilized -- as they were in the elections of 2006 and 2008 -- their political world is very different from those of young...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473667
• ISBN13: 9781611473667
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"