| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lucy G. Barber. Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 323. $34.95.
Scholars of American public opinion have long been troubled by political protest as a mechanism for the communication of popular sentiment. How are we to think about rallies, demonstrations, and marches when they are typically messy and highly idiosyncratic? Marches are one of our most obvious "bottom-up" forms of opinion expression, along with petitioning, strikes, and political theater, and so we are attracted to them as organic phenomena in sync with the most glorious forms of political participation. Marches are—more vividly than many other means—one form of public opinion expression that matches tenets of classical democratic theories most closely. As a result, students of public opinion will always be attracted to these public displays, and now Lucy G. Barber adds her own valuable insights to this tradition in an elegantly written and highly engaging book.	1
Washington, D.C., Barber argues, was established as the geographic manifestation of representation itself, a grand city built as a meeting place for great men who would come together to decide the nation's collective future. U.S. citizens send people to Washington in their place, but until the early twentieth century, they did not not expect to go there themselves. Even Mr. Jefferson Smith, of Frank Capra's masterful Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), saw the capital for the first time not as a tourist but as a replacement U.S. senator. Before that, Washington was a distant and fantastical place, for Mr. Smith, his boy rangers, and the citizens of his unnamed far-western state.	. . .

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