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constitute the first coherent myth-literature developed in America for
American audiences.’
10 Garry Wills, Reagan’s America: Innocents at Home, New York:
Doubleday, 1987.
11 Elliot King and Michael Schudson, The myth of the Great
Communicator’, Columbia Journalism Review, Nov./Dec. 1987, pp. 37–
9.
12 Paul F.Boller, Jr, Presidential Campaigns, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1984, pp. 44–6.
13 ibid., pp. 149–50.
14 Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency: A History and
Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984, pp. 9–11.
15 ibid., pp. 144–5.
16 Michael E.McGerr, The Decline of Popular Politics: The American
North, 1865–1928, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 26.
17 ibid., pp. 5, 7.
18 ibid., pp. 22ff.
19 ibid., pp. 107–37.
20 Lawrence W.Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural
Hierarchy in America, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
1988.
21 Jamieson, op. cit., p. 30.
22 Jamieson, op. cit., pp. 32–4.
23 Jamieson, op. cit., p. 43.
24 Sidney Blumenthal, The Permanent Campaign: Inside the World of Elite
Political Operatives, Boston: Beacon, 1980.
25 After two years, Downey squandered his populist capital. The
controversy he generated kept his show out of certain metropolitan areas.
Moreover, questions were raised about his veracity. The show’s ratings
declined, stations decided not to renew, and the Downey program sank into
media oblivion in 1989.
26 New York Times, national edition, 8 Dec. 1988, p. B3.
27 Daniel R. Anderson and Patricia A. Collins, The Impact on Children’s
Education: Television’s Influence on Cognitive Development,
Washington, DC: US Department of Education, Office of Educational
Research and Improvement, 1988, pp. 53–4.
28 Jay Rosen, Democracy Overwhelmed, Occasional Paper of the Center for
War, Peace, and the News Media, New York University, 1989, pp. 36ff.