propaganda and the new face of American politics Szanto, Andras. text bibliography nyu New York PublicAffairs c2007 2007 1st ed. monographic eng

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xxxi, 236 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Editor's note / Andras Szanto -- 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. edited by Andras Szanto ; with an introduction by Orville Schell. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229). n-us--- 20150300 Propaganda Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Política y gobierno Propaganda United States Mass media and propaganda United States United States Politics and government Orwell, George 1903-1950 HM 1231 W555 2007 303.3/750973 9781586485603 (pbk.) 1586485601 (pbk.) 2007036728 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007036728.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007036728-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0726/2007036728.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0828/2007036728-d.html DLC 070907 20230410115754.0 118970