Amy Fried

Prof. Fried’s research primarily concerns the history and political uses of public opinion in the United States.

Fried’s most recent scholarly book, "At War With Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump", is co-authored with Douglas B. Harris and was published by Columbia University Press in 2021. Fried is also the author of "Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation, and the Making of Public Opinion Professions" (Routledge Press, 2012), "Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion" (Columbia University Press, 1997) and many shorter works in scholarly edited volumes and journals