{"product_id":"the-public-and-its-possibilities-9781439902103","title":"The Public and Its Possibilities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sustained argument about the repeated and resilient assertion of public democracy in American cities, and the forces that inhibited and subverted its full expression.”—\u003cb\u003eMary Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e, John Martin Vincent Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As long ago as the 1920s Frederick Jackson Turner suggested an urban interpretation of American history; John Fairfield takes up that challenge. A hope long since abandoned to monographic specialization in the field has been happily realized in the powerful work of synthesis crafted by John Fairfield. \u003ci\u003eThe Public and Its Possibilities \u003c\/i\u003eis a smart, imaginatively conceived and researched, well written, and passionately told history of the challenges and possibilities of a lively urban democratic public.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThomas Bender, New York University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A work of historical synthesis and political criticism, John Fairfield’s book is a powerful reminder of the indispensable role of American cities in fostering a more expansive civic culture. Fairfield writes in the tradition of Lewis Mumford, Paul and Percival Goodman, and Jane Jacobs—alert to the ever-changing landscape of streets and plazas, public institutions, and informal associations that have enabled city residents of different backgrounds to imagine themselves as citizens and act accordingly. And like those urbanist critics, Fairfield is acutely aware that the market fundamentalism that has devastated many American cities has had equally devastating consequences for our capacity for democratic self-government. His concluding call for a new ‘ecology of the city’ could not be more timely.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eCasey Nelson Blake, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: \u003ci\u003eThe Public and Its Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eLiberalism and the Civic Strand in the American Past\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivic Aspirations and Liberal Values\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Urban Thesis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Civic Aspirations and Market Development in a Long Age of Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Democratizing the Republican Ideal of Citizenship: \u003ci\u003eVirtue, Interests, and the Citizen-Proprietor in the Revolutionary Era\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeaport Cities: Crucibles of Market and Public\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe People Out of Doors and the Imperial Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA More Democratic Public: Consumer Boycotts Politicize the Household\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Threat of Enslavement and the Need for Virtue: The Unifying Myth of the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirtue and Vice in an Overheated Market\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRedeeming the Revolution: Virtues or Mechanisms?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizen-Proprietors and the Democratization of Competence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Legacies, Democratic Futures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Creating Citizens in a Commercial Republic: \u003ci\u003eMarket 33 Transformation and the Free Labor Ideal, 1812–1873\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the Free Labor Ideal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Market Revolution and the Public Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor Politics in the Jacksonian City: Unjust Government and a Conspiracy to Enslave\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Crippled Democracy: Jacksonian Fears and Whig Paternalism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Free Labor Ideology and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePositive Liberty: Turning Slaves into Citizens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Radical Republicanism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. The Short, Strange Career of Laissez-Faire: \u003ci\u003eLiberal Reformers and Genteel Culture in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Business and Small Politics in the Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiberal Reformers and Genteel Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Liberal Reformers’ Encounter with the City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivic Murder: Liberal Reformers and Public Opinion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“This Word Culture”: An Industrial Tragedy at Pullman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Popular Culture, Political Culture: Building a Democratic Public\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. The Democratic Public in City and Nation: \u003ci\u003eThe Jacksonian City and the Limits of Antislavery\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructing a Public Realm\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Streets: Law and the Public Realm\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Park: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Jacksonian Public\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePopular Culture, Political Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung America and Democratic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Republic of the Streets and Fields\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Astor Place Riot\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFatal Flaw: Young America and Negrophobia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCultural Laissez-Faire versus the Evangelical United Front\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntislavery: Passion and Rationality in the Antebellum Public\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLincoln’s Rhetorical Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Democratic Public Discredited: \u003ci\u003eThe New York City Draft Riots and Urban Reconstruction, 1850–1872\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Most Radical City in America”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNativism and the Erosion of Municipal Autonomy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York City Draft Riots\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDraconian Justice: Reconstructing New York City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectacular Rise and Precipitous Fall of Boss Tweed\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostwar Republicanism: Labor Revolt and Metropolitan Capital\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRetrenchment and Reform\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Cultural Hierarchy and Good Government: \u003ci\u003eThe Democratic Public in Eclipse\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHighbrow\/Lowbrow and an Incompetent Citizenry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon’t Get Out the Vote\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMunicipal Counterrevolution: Dillon’s Rule and the Benevolent Expert\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomesticating the City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCivic Vertigo: The City Biological and Pathological\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Degeneration of Popular Politics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMob Mind, Befuddled Public\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. The Public in Progressivism and War\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. The Republican Moment: \u003ci\u003eThe Rediscovery of the Public in the Progressive Era\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City Beautiful and Intelligent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Georgists and the City Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocracy as Cooperative Inquiry: The Social Centers Movement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMass Media and the Socialization of Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNickel Madness or the Academy of the Working Man?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Mutual Decision\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Hollywood and the Incorporation of Movie Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. The Public Goes to War but Does Not Come Back: \u003ci\u003eRequiem for a Participatory Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War Intellectuals and The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War for the American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Mastery to Drift\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrusting the Public Too Much or Too Little?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Democrat on the Defensive\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eParticipatory Democracy and Urban Culture: From Public Opinion to Public Relations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. A Democracy of Consumers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9. From Economic Democracy to Social Security: \u003ci\u003eThe Labor Movement and the Rise of the Welfare\/Warfare State\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndustrial Democracy, Industrial Discipline\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Syndicalist Moment\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the New Freedom to the New Nationalism: War and the Triumph of the Corporate State\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLabor’s War\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Welfare Capitalism to Moral Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemocratic Unions, Labor Party\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Second New Deal: Consumerist Democracy and the End of Antimonopoly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom New Deal to New War: Liberals and Labor Abandon Reform\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTaming Labor in the Welfare\/Warfare State\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10. Constructing a Consumer Culture: \u003ci\u003eRedirecting Leisure from Civic Engagement to Insatiable Desire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Popular Demand for Leisure and the Rise of the Saloon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Leisure Question and Cheap Amusements\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Discovery of Play\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaptains of Consciousness, Land of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eExit the Saloon, Enter the Bijou\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaping Character, Inculcating Values\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Incorporation of the Consumer Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMass Culture, Mass Media, and the Consumerization of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Private Vision, Public Resources: \u003ci\u003eMass Suburbanization and the Decline of the City\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Deal Urban Policy and the Suburban-Industrial Complex\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the Urban Crisis I: Eroding the Tax and Employment Base\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the Urban Crisis II: Homeowner Pop u lism and the Fragmentation of Metropolitan Government\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCentral City Housing: The Racial Time Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDispossession: Urban Redevelopment and Urban Renewal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfronting the Reverse Welfare State: From Civil Rights to Black Power\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Societies, Separate and Unequal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuburban Secession and Farewell to the Public Realm\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Future of the City: \u003ci\u003eCivic Renewal and Environmental Politics\/i\u0026gt; \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Unfinished Tasks of American Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrivate City, Public Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisions of Fear and Hope\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward an Ecology of the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408302580055,"sku":"9781439902103","price":53.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439902103.jpg?v=1730502353","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-public-and-its-possibilities-9781439902103","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}