[lbo-talk] Fwd: From Liza Featherstone, the first-ever popular survey of the focus group

Liza Featherstone lfeather at panix.com
Wed Jul 12 13:56:20 PDT 2017



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I thought some of you might be interested in my new book, which you can pre-order now.

Cheers,

Liza


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> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:54 AM, OR Books <info at orbooks.com <mailto:info at orbooks.com>> wrote:
> Announcing Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
> We just ran a focus group on Liza Featherstone’s forthcoming book,
> Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation
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> Every participant said they much preferred Liza’s book to any other currently on the market.
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> Here are just some of the enthusiastic comments our moderators recorded:
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> “Vividly written … tells us how consumer capitalism found its pseudo-liberating groove.” —Tom Frank
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> “With sharp analysis and on-the-ground reporting … Divining Desire is the book to read.” —Leslie Savan
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> “An important, smart, revealing, and especially timely book.”
> —Susan J. Douglas
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> “A fascinating … look at the big business of asking Americans for their opinion.” —Helaine Olen
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> “Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written … essential for anyone trying to understand how business and political elites connect with their desired audience—or fail to.” —James Ledbetter
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> “Wonderful … helps us … recognize that actually we are living in a culture of cooptation where weighing in is more of an illusion than a reality…”
> —Lizabeth Cohen
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> “Definitive … will change the way you think about what other people (supposedly) think.” —Rob Walker
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> “A treasury of information and analysis.” —Andrew Ross
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> “Quite simply, the best book in print on the history and politics of the ‘culture of consultation.’” —Stephen Duncombe
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> “A critical understanding of how frames and narrative have become a shallow and grossly ineffective tool that reinforces, not challenges, the economic and polite elite.” —Jane McAlevey
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> “Deeply researched, slyly funny.” —Kim Phillips-Fein
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