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U.S. government publication : ideological development and institutional politics from the founding to 1970 / John Spencer Walters.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, John S. (John Spencer), 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Government Printing Office.
- United States.
- Printing, Public--United States--History.
- Printing, Public.
- Government publications--Publishing--United States.
- Government publications.
- Government information--United States.
- Government information.
- Government publications--Publishing.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 296 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- United States government publication
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Examines the forces that have deflected U.S. Government publication from becoming the public enterprise that Congress had conceived in the nineteenth century.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810848198
- OCLC:
- 56840329
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