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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stein, Mark, 1951- author.     Subjects     Panic -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.     Fear -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.     Moral panics -- United States -- History.     National characteristics, American -- History.     Political culture -- United States -- History.     Social change -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History.     United States -- Politics and government.     United States -- Ethnic relations.     United States -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stein, Mark, 1951- author.       by title:      American panic : a h...         MARC Display

American panic : a history of who scares us and why / Mark Stein. by Stein, Mark, 1951- author. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Subjects Panic -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.   Fear -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.   Moral panics -- United States -- History.   National characteristics, American -- History.   Political culture -- United States -- History.   Social change -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- History.   United States -- Politics and government.   United States -- Ethnic relations.   United States -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9781137279026 (hardback) : 1137279028 (hardback) Description:  275 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In American Panic, New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years. Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence over issues such as Latino immigration, gay marriage, and the construction of mosques, Stein closely examines just what it is that causes us as a nation to overreact in the face of widespread and potentially profound change. This book also devotes chapters to African Americans, Native Americans, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Chinese and Japanese peoples, communists, capitalists, women, and a highly turbulent but largely forgotten panic over Freemasons. Striking similarities in these diverse episodes are revealed in primary documents Stein has unearthed, in which statements from the past could easily be mistaken for statements today. As these similarities come to light, Stein reveals why some people become panicked over particular issues when others do not"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.20973 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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