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18%OFFFred Turner - The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties - 9780226325897 - V9780226325897
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The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

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Description for The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order. Surprisingly, he shows that it was this turn that brought us the revolutionary multimedia and wild-eyed individualism of the 1960s counterculture. In ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226325897
SKU
V9780226325897
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99-50

About Fred Turner
Fred Turner is associate professor of communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in California.

Reviews for The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
Turner's book offers an important look at how our technologies might, or might not, resonate with the democratic politics many of us hope to better exercise.
Los Angeles Review of Books The history of ideas is intellectual archeology, and Stanford professor Turner is a man with a well-whetted pickaxe and an arsenal of delicate brushes.
Arts Fuse The ... Read more

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