Abstract
United States has for most of its history been a victorious nation. Then its historians make comparisons with other nations, they invariably favor the United States. habit of victory can then become a bad one. The historian who stands on the side of the victorious, Reinhart Koselleck has written, easily tempted to interpret triumphs of the moment as the lasting outcomes of an ex post facto teleology.3 At times, one must question the winner's view and make it the subject of debate. This, as I understand it, is Paul Starr's task in Creation of the Media. Without polemic, Starr asks us to extend our thinking about media and politics both, and bypasses the truisms that characterize current discussion on the subject. Starr seeks to question the conservative consensus in politics, describing what he calls an American dilemma, provoked by the near-exclusive reliance on private interests to preserve public liberties-a remedy that can have the opposite effect. book offers brilliant historical accounts to show that the U.S. state was responsible from the start
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