Harold Lasswell, the "problem of World Order," and the Historic Mission of the American Middle Class

The author examines the work of distinguished social scientist Harold Lasswell, who from the late 1930s to the early 1950s developed an original interpretation of American public life, political institutions, societal relations, and the middle class-the alleged backbone of its democracy-in light of the global conflicts between liberalism, fascism, and bolshevism and the binary partition of the world that characterized the Cold War years