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A thoughtful and though-provoking work that contributes to our understanding of the transformation of American liberal democracy in the early twentieth century. --Laura M. Westhoff, American Historical Review

A thoughtful and though-provoking work that contributes to our understanding of the transformation of American liberal democracy in the early twentieth century. --Laura M. Westhoff American Historical Review Deserves careful attention . . . Presents a dynamic approach to how twentieth-century democracy was historically and theoretically construed after the triumph of the corporate state in America. --Journal of American History In this original approach to the transformation of democratic thought in the early twentieth century, Frezza probes the meaning of the public voice for the exercise of citizenship. This is an impressive and insightful book that captures the changing significance of the crowd as it manifested itself in public spaces and political life. It is an important contribution both to intellectual history and to the history of the social sciences. --Alice Kessler-Harris author of Gendering Labor History A brilliant work of scholarship . . . Presents a strong original thesis as well as a masterly synthesis of the scholarship in its field. Of unflagging vigor and sinewy prose, it is a major contribution at the crossroads of intellectual history, politics, and cultural studies. . . . There is currently no work that covers this intellectual terrain with such comprehensiveness and argumentative strength. . . . Frezza shows how European crowd theory and American concepts of racial superiority, class, decadence, and race suicide made strange bedfellows, from academic journals to congressional hearings, as similarly grounded positions were taken by the Right and the Left to defend different policies. --Voices in Italian Americana

A thoughtful and though-provoking work that contributes to our understanding of the transformation of American liberal democracy in the early twentieth century. --Laura M. Westhoff American Historical Review In this original approach to the transformation of democratic thought in the early twentieth century, Frezza probes the meaning of the public voice for the exercise of citizenship. This is an impressive and insightful book that captures the changing significance of the crowd as it manifested itself in public spaces and political life. It is an important contribution both to intellectual history and to the history of the social sciences. --Alice Kessler-Harris author of Gendering Labor History A brilliant work of scholarship . . . Presents a strong original thesis as well as a masterly synthesis of the scholarship in its field. Of unflagging vigor and sinewy prose, it is a major contribution at the crossroads of intellectual history, politics, and cultural studies. . . . There is currently no work that covers this intellectual terrain with such comprehensiveness and argumentative strength. . . . Frezza shows how European crowd theory and American concepts of racial superiority, class, decadence, and race suicide made strange bedfellows, from academic journals to congressional hearings, as similarly grounded positions were taken by the Right and the Left to defend different policies. --Voices in Italian Americana Deserves careful attention . . . Presents a dynamic approach to how twentieth-century democracy was historically and theoretically construed after the triumph of the corporate state in America. --Journal of American History

A thoughtful and though-provoking work that contributes to our understanding of the transformation of American liberal democracy in the early twentieth century.--Laura M. Westhoff American Historical Review

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"Daria Frezza is a professor of U.S. history in the history department, faculty of literature, at the University of Siena in Italy. Martha King received her PhD in Italian from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has translated twenty-one books and is the author of ""Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life."""

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