The Democratic Surround: Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Fred Turner is associate professor of communication at Stanford University. He is the author of Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory and From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637

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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-81746-0 (cloth)

ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06414-7 (e-book)

DOI: 10.7208/9780226064147.001.0001

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Turner, Fred, author.

The democratic surround : multimedia and American liberalism from World War II to the psychedelic sixties / Fred Turner.

pages cm

Includes bibliograpical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-226-81746-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-226-06414-7 (e-book)

1. Mass media—Political aspects—United States—History—20th century. 2. Liberalism—United States. 3. Counterculture—United States—History—20th century. 4. Cold War. I. Title.

P95.82.u6t87 2013

302.23'0973—dc23

2013022419

This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).