Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 7 of 69
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Igo, Sarah E., 1969-

Title The averaged American : surveys, citizens, and the making of a mass public / Sarah E. Igo.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  301.072 IG6    Check Shelf
Description 398 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-378) and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Introduction : America in aggregate -- 1. Canvassing a "typical" community -- 2. Middletown becomes Everytown -- 3. Polling the average populace -- 4. The majority talks back -- 5. Surveying normal selves -- 6. The private lives of the public -- Epilogue : statistical citizens -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Social surveys -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN 0674023218 alkaline paper
9780674023215 alkaline paper
-->
Add a Review