Forming the Public

Frank Durham is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa. Thomas Oates is an associate professor in the department of American Studies and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Iowa. His books include Football and Manliness: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL.

Acknowledgments Introduction Creating an American Public Interest Writing against Slavery: The Abolitionist Press The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage The Haymarket Riot and the Rights of Labor Reconstruction, Lynching, and Ida B. Wells's Crusade for Justice Dreams and Nightmares of Empire La Raza and the Rangers: Competing Narratives of Citizenship and Policing on the Borderlands What Is Democracy? Lippmann, Bernays, and Public Opinion What Is "Americanism"? The Second Red Scare Civil Rights and the Spectacle of Southern Racism The Black Panthers and the Young Lords: Anti-imperialist and Anti-capitalist Journalism The American Indian Movement and Indigenous Peoples' Media Strategies Conclusion: The Ongoing Struggle to Define the Public Notes Index