Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the revolution to reconstruction / Mark G. Schmeller.

"Even today, with sophisticated surveys and computer-produced margins of error, we have trouble gauging the elusive voice we call 'public opinion, ' but no one questions its importance in a democracy. In this insightful new study, Mark G. Schmeller sets out to recreate or approximate the nature of p...

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Uniform Title:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
Main Author: Schmeller, Mark G., 1967- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Series:New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Physical Description:x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction : public opinion and the American political imagination -- The moral economy of opinion -- The political economy of opinion -- Partisan manufactories of public sentiment -- The importance of having opinion -- The fatal force of public opinion -- Irrepressible conflicts, impending crises -- Conclusion : corn-pone opinion -- Essay on sources. 
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