The Age of Charisma

Auteur

Jeremy C. Young is an assistant professor of history at Dixie State University, Utah. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Social History, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Forest History Today, and a dozen newspapers including the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Seattle Times.

Texte du rabat

The Age of Charisma examines a uniquely emotional type of social movement based on 'personal magnetism' which dominated American society from the Gilded Age to the eve of World War II. This book is unique in its ability to address political, social, cultural, and intellectual history under the single banner of charisma.

Contenu

Introduction; 1. Magnetic America: personal magnetism in American culture, 187000; 2. Command performances: leaders and their technologies, 189010; 3. Transformations: the follower experience, 189020; 4. Competing visions: imagining charisma and social change, 189010; 5. Changing society: the rise and fall of progressive charisma, 1910; 6. End of an age: from magnetism to mass communication, 1920; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.