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1st ed. |
| Description |
xxxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
PublicAffairs reports
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PublicAffairs reports.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229). |
| Contents |
Editor's note / András Szántó -- Introduction: Follies of orthodoxy / Orville Schell -- Orwell then and now / David Rieff -- The limits of language / Nicholas Lemann -- Words in a tome of war : on rhetoric, truth, and power / Mark Danner -- An egregious collocation of vocables / Patricia J. Williams -- Freedom, liberty, and rights : three cautionary tales / Aryeh Neier -- Sloppiness and the English language / Francine Prose -- What Orwell didn't know about the brain, the mind, and language / George Lakoff -- The new frontier : the instruments of emotion / Drew Westen -- Stellar spin / Frances FitzGerald -- Bad knowledge / Alice O'Connor -- Black and white, or gray : a Polish conundrum / Konstanty Gebert -- After the Falwellians / Susan Harding -- Welcome to the infotainment freak show / Martin Kaplan -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stay the couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds : but what about big media? / Victor Navasky -- Reporters and rhetoric / Geoffrey Cowan -- Lessons from the war zone / Farnaz Fassihi -- Our own thought police / Michael Massing -- Epilogue: What I didn't know : open society reconsidered / George Soros -- Appendix: Politics and the English language / George Orwell. |
| Subject |
Propaganda -- United States.
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Propaganda. |
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United States. |
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Mass media and propaganda -- United States.
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Mass media and propaganda. |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Politics and the English language.
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| Added Author |
Szántó, András.
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| ISBN |
9781586485603 paperback |
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1586485601 paperback |
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