Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New DealHarvard University Press, 2000 M09 15 - 223 pages Although Americans claim to revere the Constitution, relatively few understand its workings. Its real importance for the average citizen is as an enduring reminder of the moral vision that shaped the nation's founding. Yet scholars have paid little attention to the broader appeal that constitutional idealism has always made to the American imagination through publications and films. Maxwell Bloomfield draws upon such neglected sources to illustrate the way in which media coverage contributes to major constitutional change. |
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... Wilsonian spokesmen pre- served the fiction of voluntary choice while relying on punitive law en- forcement agencies to deal with " slackers . " 12 In fact , no repressive action by the Wilsonian war machine proved nec- essary to keep ...
... Wilsonian bureaucrats put increasing pres- sure on production companies to assist postwar adjustment by condemn- ing labor violence and all forms of radicalism in their films . According to David Niles , head of the Motion Picture ...
... Wilsonian propagandists used such imagery to stigmatize the Wobblies as dangerous firebrands and paid agents of the German government . Mary Roberts Rinehart , for one , portrayed sinister Wobbly characters in her wartime fiction . But ...
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The Founders Constitution | 1 |
Modern Constitutionalism and Progressive Reform | 19 |
The Selling of War Socialism | 48 |
Copyright | |
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