Benjamin Quail

I am a historian of American History and communication, interested in how the powerful communicate with both one another, and the powerless. My most recent monograph publication, Selling Guns and Butter, investigated the relationship between President Johnson and the press, while my forthcoming research funded by the Fulbright Commission investigates the UK-US-Australian relationship.

I am also interested in how subcultural spaces resist authority in a mass-media world. To this end, my forthcoming monograph on protest music and American society describes how networks are formed in subcultures to circumvent traditional mass-media networks.