Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life Book

	Acknowledgments
1	The mysterious shrinking circle of concern	1
2	Volunteers trying to make sense of the world
3	"Close to home" and "for the children": trying really hard not to care	64
4	Humor, nostalgia, and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere	85
5	Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics	131
6	Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity	154
7	Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion
8	Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation	210
9	The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere	230
App. 1	Class in the public sphere	264
App. 2	Method	269
	Notes	280
	References	304
	Index	320