Communism, Conformity, And Civil Liberties: A Cross-Section Of The Nation Speaks Its Mind
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
At the height of McCarthyism, Harvard sociologist Samuel A. Stouffer marshalled the tools of empirical social science to take the pulse of a nation gripped by fear — and what he found was as illuminating as it was unexpected. Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties presents the findings of a landmark nationwide survey conducted in 1954, drawing on interviews with over 6,000 Americans to measure public attitudes toward civil liberties, political conformity, and the perceived threat of Communist subversion during one of the most paranoid episodes in American political history. Stouffer's methodology was rigorous and his conclusions quietly radical: contrary to the hysteria dominating the headlines, a significant portion of the American public demonstrated a nuanced, tolerant disposition toward dissent and difference. Written with the measured authority of a leading empirical sociologist, the work argues that democratic institutions proved more resilient than the demagogues of the era supposed. Decades after its publication, this seminal study remains an indispensable document for understanding the relationship between fear, freedom, and the fragile consensus of Cold War America — and raises questions about civil liberties that remain urgently unresolved.
Author: Samuel A. Stouffer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1955, Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Previous owner. Binding condition: Binding intact.
At the height of McCarthyism, Harvard sociologist Samuel A. Stouffer marshalled the tools of empirical social science to take the pulse of a nation gripped by fear — and what he found was as illuminating as it was unexpected. Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties presents the findings of a landmark nationwide survey conducted in 1954, drawing on interviews with over 6,000 Americans to measure public attitudes toward civil liberties, political conformity, and the perceived threat of Communist subversion during one of the most paranoid episodes in American political history. Stouffer's methodology was rigorous and his conclusions quietly radical: contrary to the hysteria dominating the headlines, a significant portion of the American public demonstrated a nuanced, tolerant disposition toward dissent and difference. Written with the measured authority of a leading empirical sociologist, the work argues that democratic institutions proved more resilient than the demagogues of the era supposed. Decades after its publication, this seminal study remains an indispensable document for understanding the relationship between fear, freedom, and the fragile consensus of Cold War America — and raises questions about civil liberties that remain urgently unresolved.