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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Story of the Century”
1. Radio’s Challenges: Public Intellectuals and the Problem of Mass Culture
William Orton and the Mass-Consumption Critique
James Rorty and the Mass-Production Critique
African American Intellectuals and the Mass-Production Critique in Action
Related Solutions
Defenders of the Faith
2. Radio’s Listeners: Personalizing Mass Culture
The Mass Audience Listens
Consumer Bargaining
“When You Can’t Find a Friend, You’ve Still Got the Radio”
3. Radio’s Democracy: The Politics of the Fireside
Roosevelt on the Radio
Radio Democracy: The Politics of Intimacy
Radio Democracy: The Politics of Information
Once and Future Ideals?
4. Radio’s Champions: Strange Gods?
Radio Stars
Voices of the People
Power . . . Corrupts?
Limited Amplitude
5. Radio’s Students: Media Studies and the Possibility of Mass Communication
Paul Lazarsfeld and Social Pragmatism’s Hope
Herman Hettinger and Commercial Pragmatism’s Faith
Theodor Adorno’s Critical Theory: A Considerably Less Charitable View
6. Radio’s Writers: A Public Voice in the Modern World
Art of the Air
Public Speech, Public Art, and Mass Communication
Modernism on the Air
Muffled Voices
Conclusion
Notes
Index