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Publication Date: 2019-Dec
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Reaffirming Critical Composition Studies as an Antidote to Trumpian Authoritarianism
Donald Lazere
College Composition and Communication, v71 n2 p296-329 2019
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.
Descriptors: Presidents, Political Attitudes, Political Candidates, Authoritarianism, Personality Traits, Social Sciences, Socioeconomic Influences, Historical Interpretation, Popular Culture
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