Abstract
Books have long been credited with social and cultural influence, but the evidence for this is largely anecdotal and fragmentary. This study proposes ways to test books’ influence by wedding the methods of cultural studies, communication studies, and book history with agenda-setting theory to assess the relationship between four best sellers and policy and cultural changes that previously had been uncritically attributed to them: The Jungle, Unsafe at Any Speed, Backlash, and Fast Food Nation.
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