Becoming citizens in the age of television : how Americans challenged the media and seized political initiative during the Iran-Contra debate / David Thelen
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: The Participatory Moment -- 2: "Reagan's Magic" and "Olliemania": How Journalists Invented the American People -- 3: The Living Traditions of Citizenship: From Monitoring to Mobilizing in the Summer of 1987 -- 4: Turning the Intimate into the Public: The Participatory Act of Writing a Congressman -- 5: Choosing a Voice and Making It Count -- 6: Interpreting Politics in Everyday Life -- 7: Bringing Critical Issues into the Public Forum: Policing the World and Defining Heroism -- 8: Making Citizens Visible: Toward a Social History of Twentieth-Century American Politics -- Conclusion: Drawing Politics Closer to Everyday Life -- Note on Sources and Method -- Notes -- Index
