U.S. government publication : ideological development and institutional politics from the founding to 1970 / John Spencer Walters.

"This book examines the forces that have deflected U.S. government publication from becoming the public enterprise conceived by Congress in the nineteenth century. John Walters discusses concepts deeply embedded in the American political consciousness and their inhibitive effort on the producti...

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Main Author: Walters, John S. 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • The ideological heritage
  • An informing function consummated
  • Toward an ideological underpinning
  • Institutional tensions
  • Toy presses and the rise of fugitive U.S. government documents
  • Heretical impulses : the push for a clearinghouse
  • The republic of federal scientific publication : the not-so-public domain.