| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Il leader, la folla, la democrazia nel discorso pubblico americano, 1880–1941 (The leader, the crowd, and democracy in American public discourse, 1880–1941). By Daria Frezza. (Rome: Carocci, 2001. 335 pp. Lit 42,000, ISBN 88-430-1892-2.) In Italian.

Professor Daria Frezza's book on the changing patterns of leadership and mass democracy deserves careful attention, not only from an American point of view but also from a non-American perspective of American studies. When the concept of democracy has been frozen as a cost-benefit scholastic exercise by American political science, this foreign historian presents a dynamic approach to how twentieth-century democracy was historically and theoretically construed after the triumph of the corporate state in America. The book offers a good account of the transition from a classic Tocquevillean democracy to a political order referred to as a pluralist democracy, a market democracy, a corporate democracy, or, abroad and by its critics, a money-oriented democracy. Less prone to those terms and utilizing D. T. Rodgers's category of Atlantic Crossings (1998), the author outlines a dialectical relationship between European and American social sciences and intellectuals in order to cope with holistic collective entities aimed at modern totalitarian movements. . . .

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