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9780810848191

U.S. Government Publication Ideological Development and Institutional Politics from the Founding to 1970

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  • ISBN13:

    9780810848191

  • ISBN10:

    0810848198

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-02-09
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $87.00

Summary

Examines the forces that have deflected U.S. Government publication from becoming the public enterprise that Congress had conceived in the nineteenth century.

Author Biography

John Spencer Walters serves as department head for Government Information/Maps, as well as Regional Depository Librarian at the Merrill Library at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
1 The Ideological Heritage 1(28)
2 An Informing Function Consummated 29(32)
3 Toward an Ideological Underpinning 61(32)
4 Institutional Tensions 93(36)
5 Toy Presses and the Rise of Fugitive U.S. Government Documents 129(50)
6 Heretical Impulses: The Push for a Clearinghouse 179(32)
7 The Republic of Federal Scientific Publication: The Not-So-Public Domain 211(34)
Conclusion 245(4)
Bibliography 249(36)
Glossary 285(2)
Index 287(10)
About the Author 297

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