The philosopher-lobbyist : John Dewey and the People's Lobby, 1928-1940 / Mordecai Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Why Study the People�s Lobby? -- Disciplinary Foci and Audiences for the Book -- Historiographic Approach -- Part I: Inventing the People�s Lobby -- 1. John Dewey and Benjamin Marsh before the People�s Lobby -- Sketch of Dewey�s Life and Philosophy, 1859�1927 -- Walter Lippmann�s Public Opinion (1922) and The Phantom Public (1925 -- Dewey Responds to Lippmann: The Public and Its Problems, 1927 -- Sketch of Marsh�s Life and Politics, 1877�1921

Marsh and the People�s Reconstruction League, 1921�28Earlier Efforts at Forming a People�s Lobby -- 2. Constructing the People�s Lobby, 1928�1931 -- Dewey and the Founding of the People�s Lobby -- Building an Initial Organizational Structure -- Getting to Financial Viability -- Determining a Legal Status -- Dewey and Marsh�s Partnership -- Part II: Dewey as President of the People�s Lobby -- 3. Policy Advocacy during the Coolidge and Hoover Presidencies, 1928�1932 -- Advocating for the Disadvantaged during Prosperity, April 1928�October 1929

Lobbying After the Crash, November 1929�December 1930Economic Policy -- Other Domestic Issues -- Foreign Policy -- Alternatives to Hoover�s Policies, 1931�32 -- Economic Policy -- Other Domestic Issues -- Foreign and Military Policy -- 4. Lobby Operations and Conservative Attacks, 1928�1932 -- Advocacy Strategy: PR to the Max -- In Operation -- Media Characterizations and Conservative Attacks -- 5. Policy Advocacy during FDR�s First Term: Criticizing the First New Deal as Too Conservative, 1933�1934 -- Interregnum, November 1932�March 1933

Economic PolicyForeign and Military Policy -- FDR�s One Hundred Days, March�June, 1933 -- Economic Policy -- Foreign and Military Policy -- To the Midpoint of FDR�s First Term, Mid-1933 to the November 1934 Elections -- Economic Policy -- Other Domestic Issues -- Foreign and Military Policy -- 6. Policy Advocacy during FDR�s First Term: Criticizing the Second New Deal as Too Conservative, 1935�1936 -- Economic Policy -- Other Domestic Issues -- Foreign and Military Policy

7. Lobby Operations and Conservative Attacks during FDR�s First Term, 1933�1936Advocacy Strategy: PR to the Max -- In Operation -- Media Characterizations and Conservative Attacks -- After Eight Years as President, Dewey Semi-Exits -- Part III: Dewey as Honorary President of the People�s Lobby and After -- 8. Policy Advocacy during FDR�s Second Term, 1937�1940 -- Dewey as Honorary President, 1936�40 -- Economic Policy -- Other Domestic Issues -- Foreign and Military Policy

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