Günter Leypoldt is a professor of American literature and culture at Heidelberg University, the author of Cultural Authority in the Age of Whitman: A Transatlantic Perspective (2009), and editor of Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900 (2013) and Reading Practices (2015).
Manfred Berg is the Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at Heidelberg University. He is the author and editor of nineteen books, including The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (2005); Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (2011); Woodrow Wilson. Amerika und die Neuordnung der Welt. Eine Biographie (2017).

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface 7
Introduction 9
The Decline of Political Trust and the Rise of Populism in the United States 37
Waning Trust in (Scientific) Experts and Expertise? 61
Shifting Meridians of Global Authority 87
Trust and the City 111
"We must trust that look of hers" 135
"We believe that we have a right to revelations, visions, and dreams from God" 167
The Trust Debate in the Literature of the American Renaissance 191
Authority, Genealogy, Infrastructure 223
Shoppers, Worshippers, Culture Warriors 245
List of Contributors 277