Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America

Ronald Edsforth is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan. Larry Bennettt directs the Urban Studies Program and is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at DePaul University. He is the author of Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods and co-author of Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline.

"I am most impressed with the utility of this collection, the quality of the scholarship, the clarity of the writing, the breadth of coverage, and most important, the kinds of questions that each essay raises." — Bruce C. Nelson, Central Michigan University

• Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Popular Culture and Politics in Modern America: An IntroductionRonald Edsforth 2. Coxey's Army as a Millennial MovementMichael Barkun 3. Progressive Reform, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Industry, 1909–1917Nancy Rosenbloom 4. The Press and the Red Scare, 1919–1921Howard Abramowitz 5. Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920sLizabeth Cohen 6. Affluence, Anti-Communism, and the Transformation of Industrial Unionism Among Automobile Workers, 1933–1973Ronald Edsforth 7. "If a Body Catch a Body": The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Debate as Expression of Nuclear CulturePamela Steinle 8. The Domestication of Rock and Roll: From Insurrection to MythLarry Bennett 9. Closing Thoughts: Popular Culture and National AnxietyLarry Bennett Notes Contributors Index