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2018
Volume 71, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Public discussion of “the authoritarian personality” returned with the election of President Trump. This article traces the rise of that concept and broader study of mass society in American social science, with adaptations into composition studies from the 1960s to the 1990s—followed by their lamentable eclipse under a lethal combination of forces since then.

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