MA Culminating Exam Bibliography Persuasion and Politics

Ansolabehere, Stephen and Shanto Iyenger. Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink & Polarize the Electorate. New York: The Free Press, 1995. Aristotle. The Art of Rhetoric. New York: Penguin Classics, 1991. Bernays, Edward L. and Mark Crispin Miller. Propaganda. New York: IG Publishers, 2004. Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. New York: Atheneum, 1987. Bourdieu, Pierre, and Randal Johnson. The Field of Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. 29-73. Calhoun, Craig (Ed). Habermas and the Public Sphere (Studies in Contemporary German Thought). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. See especially Calhouns introduction, chapters by Nancy Fraser and Michael Schudson, and Habermas response chapter; these offer a sense of the kind of debates provoked by Habermas. Davis, Aeron. Public Relations Democracy: Public Relations, Politics and the Mass Media in Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: The Formation of Mens Attitudes. New York: Vintage Books, 1973. Ewen, Stuart. PR! A History of Spin. New York: Basic Books, 1998. Gans, Herbert J. Deciding Whats News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. Gitlin, Todd. The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Los Angeles: UC Press, 1980. Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1989. Hallin, Daniel C. The Uncensored War: The Media and Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Hallin, Daniel C. We Keep America on Top of the World. London: Routledge, 1994. Hayakawa, S.I. Language in Thought and Action. New York: Harcourt, 1991.

Herman, Edward S. and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon, 1988. Hertzstein, Robert Edwin. The War that Hitler Won; The Most Infamous Propaganda Campaign in History. New York: Putnam, 1978. Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. 1925. Volume 1, Chapter 6: War Propaganda and Volume 2, Chapter 11: Propaganda and Organization. Katz, Elihu and Paul Lazarsfeld. Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2005. Lippman, Walter. Public Opinion. New York: The Free Press, 1997. MacArthur, John. Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Machiovelli, Niccolo. The Prince. New York: Bantam, 1984. Mendelberg, Tali. The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality. New Jersey: Princeton, 2001. Ryan, Charlotte. Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1990. Schudson, Michael. How Culture Works: Perspectives from Media Studies on the Efficacy of Symbols. Theory and Society 18 (1989): 153-180. Schudson, M. The Sociology of News. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

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