Sticky Reputations: The Politics of Collective Memory in Midcentury America

Sticky Reputations examines the changes in American politics from the Depression to the Age of Consensus, analyzing how the range of political options narrowed in the period. In the course of this analysis, the author examines those "sticky reputations" of figures whose reputation is so solidified that an attack on their reputation in turn affects the reputation of the person who presents an alternative perspective.