CROWDS: A MOVING-PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Mass Society, Public Opinion, and the Spiritual Promise of Democracy in the Industrial AgeBy Gerald Stanley Lee
Length18h 44m
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In CROWDS: A MOVING-PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY, Gerald Stanley Lee offers a vigorous meditation on mass society, public opinion, and the spiritual possibilities of democratic life in the modern industrial age. Written in a prophetic, aphoristic, and often cinematic prose style, the book treats the crowd not merely as a political fact but as a new cultural organism shaped by newspapers, machines, commerce, cities, and spectacle. Its "moving-picture" method reflects early twentieth-century fascination with motion, speed, and collective perception. Lee was an American essayist, minister, lecturer, and social critic whose career was devoted to interpreting modernity in moral and imaginative terms. Educated in the religious and literary traditions of New England, he sought to reconcile individual vision with collective progress. His interest in democracy, technology, and personality naturally led him to examine how leadership, art, and moral energy might transform anonymous crowds into creative publics. This book is recommended to readers interested in democratic theory, cultural criticism, media history, and the literature of social reform. Though unmistakably of its era, it remains stimulating for its bold attempt to understand mass democracy as both danger and promise.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length18 hrs 44 mins
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Publish dateSep 18, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CROWDS: A MOVING-PICTURE OF DEMOCRACY (Annotated)
2Book One. Crowds and Machines
3Chapter I. Where are We Going?
4Chapter II. The Crowd Scare
5Chapter III. The Machine Scare
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6Chapter IV. The Strike—An Invention for Making Crowds Think
7Chapter V. The Crowd-Man—An Invention for Making Crowds See
8Chapter VI. The Imagination of Crowds
9Chapter VII. Imagination About the Unseen
10Chapter VIII. The Crowd's Imagination About the Future
11Chapter IX. The Crowd's Imagination About People
12Chapter X. A Democratic Theory of Human Nature
13Chapter XI. Doing as One Would Wish One Had Done in Twenty Years
14Chapter XII. New Kinds and New Sizes of Men
15Book Two. Letting the Crowds Be Good
16Chapter I. Speaking as One of the Crowd
17Chapter II. Is It Wrong for Good People to be Efficient?
18Chapter III. Is It Wrong for Good People to be Interesting?
19Chapter IV. Prospects of the Liar
20Chapter V. Prospects of the Bully
21Chapter VI. Goodness as a Crowd-Process
22Chapter VII. Thoughts on Being Improved by Other People
23Chapter VIII. Making Goodness Hurry
24Chapter IX. Touching the Imagination of Crowds
25Chapter X. The Stupendous, the Unusual, the Monotonous, and the Successful
26Chapter XI. The Successful
27Chapter XII. The Necks of the Wicked
28Chapter XIII. Is It Wrong for Good People to be Successful?
29Chapter XIV. Is It Second Rate for Good People to be Successful?
30Chapter XV. The Successful Temperament
31Chapter XVI. The Men Ahead Pull
32Chapter XVII. The Crowds Push
33Chapter XVIII. The Man Who Says How, Says How
34Chapter XIX. And the Machine Starts
35Book Three. Letting the Crowd be Beautiful
36Part One. Wistful Millionaires
37Chapter I. Mr. Carnegie Speaks Up
38Chapter II. Mr. Carnegie Tries to Make People Read
39Chapter III. Mr. Nobel Tries to Make People Write
40Chapter IV. Paper Books, Marble Pillars, and Wooden Boys
41Chapter V. The Humdrum Factory and the Tumpty-tum Theatre
42Part Two. Iron Machines
43Chapter I. Steeples and Chimneys
44Chapter II. Bells and Wheels
45Chapter III. Dew and Engines
46Chapter IV. Dead as a Door Nail!
47Chapter V. An Oxford Man and an Inch of Iron
48Chapter VI. The Machines' Machines
49Chapter VII. The Men's Machines
50Chapter VIII. The Basement of the World
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