Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick. A Nation Fragmented: The Public Agenda in the Information Age. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2019. 278 pp. $104.50 (cloth). $34.95 (paper).

The authors of A Nation Fragmented examine the shape of the public agenda over a period of forty years (1975–2014) and argue that there is less consensus today over the country’s most important problems than there was during the golden age of broadcast news. They then explore the degree to which this fragmentation coincides with a changing media landscape—one that was transformed first by the introduction of cable and satellite television, and...