Becoming Citizens in the Age of Television

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Participatory Moment
2: "Reagan's Magic" and "Olliemania": How Journalists Invented the American People
3: The Living Traditions of Citizenship: From Monitoring to Mobilizing in the Summer of 1987
4: Turning the Intimate into the Public: The Participatory Act of Writing a Congressman
5: Choosing a Voice and Making It Count
6: Interpreting Politics in Everyday Life
7: Bringing Critical Issues into the Public Forum: Policing the World and Defining Heroism
8: Making Citizens Visible: Toward a Social History of Twentieth-Century American Politics
Conclusion: Drawing Politics Closer to Everyday Life
Note on Sources and Method
Notes
Index