U.S. Government Publication: Ideological Development and Institutional Politics from the Founding to 1970Examines the forces that have deflected U.S. Government publication from becoming the public enterprise that Congress had conceived in the nineteenth century. Walters covers everything from the deeply embedded ideas of the American political consciousness and its inhibitive effect on the production, distribution, preservation, and quality of U.S. Government documents to reasons why the executive department circumvented the U.S. Government Printing Office to the causes behind the conspicuous lawlessness of government publication to how the folkways of science served to constrict the sphere of government publication to a narrow strip. |
Contents
The Ideological Heritage | 1 |
An Informing Function Consummated 18001850 | 29 |
Toward an Ideological Underpinning for US Government Publishing 18601915 | 61 |
Institutional Tensions 19171921 | 93 |
Toy Presses and the Rise of Fugitive US Government Documents | 129 |
Heretical Impulses The Push for a Clearinghouse 1940s and 1950s | 179 |
The Republic of Federal Scientific Publication The NotSoPublic Domain | 211 |
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