Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Story of the Century” 1
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 Possibilities 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
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