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Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Social aspects.
- Archives.
- Archives--Administration--Case studies.
- Records--Management--Case studies.
- Records.
- Common good.
- Public interest.
- Responsibility.
- Records--Management.
- Archives--Administration.
- Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 340 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.
- Contents:
- Explanation 19
- Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers / James M. O'Toole 21
- "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada / Terry Cook 37
- Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information / Kimberly Barata, Piers Cain, Dawn Routledge, Justus Wamukoya 67
- Secrecy 89
- Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations / David A. Wallace 91
- The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society / Shelley Davis 115
- Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection / Robin L. Chandler, Susan Storch 135
- Memory 163
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory / Tywanna Whorley 165
- Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001 / Greg Bradsher 177
- "They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994 / Verne Harris 205
- Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective / Anne Van Camp 229
- Trust 245
- What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems / David B. Gracy II 247
- The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks / Victoria L. Lemieux 265
- The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair / Barbara L. Craig 283
- Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia / Chris Hurley 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1567204694
- OCLC:
- 48550928
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