- 267 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This is both a history book and a book on public opinion. George Gallup, who pioneered survey sampling methods and whose name in fact became synonymous with public opinion polls, conducted his first survey in 1936. The main part of this book starts there as well. Dedicating a chapter to each decade from the 1930s to the present, Seltzer discusses historical events of the period and what the U.S. public thought of those events according to Gallup polls and other public opinion surveys. Each chapter is divided into the following categories: world events; U.S. politics; race; sex and gender; the economy; science, technology and the environment; and popular trends. Within each chapter, approximately 40 survey questions were chosen for more extended analysis: breaking down the results by race, age, gender, education, region, and political party.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The 1930s: The Great Depression and the Start of World War II
- Chapter 2: The 1940s: World War II and the Onset of the Cold War
- Chapter 3: The 1950s: Anticommunism, Relative Economic Prosperity at Home, and a Growing Cold War Abroad
- Chapter 4: The 1960s: Era of Protest: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and Counterculture
- Chapter 5: The 1970s: Watergate, Normalization of Relations with China, Continuing Social and Political Protest, the Growth o International Terrorism, and Stagflation
- Chapter 6: The 1980s: Ronald Reagan, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and AIDS
- Chapter 7: The 1990s: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the First Gulf War, the Genocide in Rwanda, Bill Clinton, and the Rise of the Internet
- Chapter 8: The 2000s: Decade of 9/11, the Iraqi War, the Great Recession, and the Election of Barack Obama
- Chapter 9: The 2010s: War against ISIS, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, Brexit, and the Election of Donald Trump
- Chapter 10: 2020: Covid-19, the Killing of George Floyd and Protests, an Attempt to Overthrow an Election
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- References
- Index
- About the Author