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Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter - Hardcover

Hart, Roderick P.

 
9780195086560: Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter

Synopsis

Through an incisive examination of television's role in American politics, this book offers some important--and often surprising--answers. What we need, argues Hart, is a New Puritanism. As an antidote to the disillusioning electronic world we now inhabit, Hart advocates a return to the values of our ancestors, a rediscovered understanding that duty, community, and hope--not television's wry uncertainties--offer the keys to political wisdom. A penetrating and witty analysis that shifts the focus from the public arena to the private home, Seducing America shows that much of the blame for our political dissatisfaction rests not with the spin doctors, journalists, and politicians, but with ourselves. It is a book that all Americans should read before the next election year begins.

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About the Authors

Roderick P. Hart is F.A. Liddell Professor of Communication and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin.


About the Author:
Roderick P. Hart is F.A. Liddell Professor of Communication and Professor of Government at the University of Texas, Austin. His previous books include Modern Rhetorical Criticism (1990) and The Sound of Leadership (1987).

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