Difficult Reputations : Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial - Gary Alan Fine

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Difficult Reputations

Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial

By: Gary Alan Fine

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Hardcover | 15 February 2001 | Edition Number 1

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We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values.
Presenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, sociologist Gary Alan Fine analyzes negative, contested, and subcultural reputations. "Difficult Reputations" offers eight compelling historical case studies as well as a theoretical introduction situating the complex roles in culture and history that negative reputations play.
Arguing the need for understanding real conditions that lead to proposed interpretations, as well as how reputations are given meaning over time, this book marks an important contribution to the sociologies of culture and knowledge.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction- Constructing Difficult Reputations
Benedict Arnold and the Commemoration of Treason
Warren Harding and the Memory of Incompetence
John Brown and the Legitimation of Political Violence
Fatty Arbuckle and the Creation of Public Attention
Henry Ford and the Multiple-Audience Problem
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, and the Creation of Imaginary Social Relations
Herman Melville and the Demise of Literary Reputation
Sinclair Lewis,Main Street, and Community Reputation Conclusion- Difficult Reputations
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