Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life by Nina Eliasoph

Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life

Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Nina Eliasoph

344 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens is said to be the fount of democracy, but many Americans try hard to avoid appear...

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