Gag Rule
Subtitle: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781594200175
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; United States; Political Science; Individual And The State; Mass Communication; Politics/International Relations; Political aspects; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Political Science / General; Freedom of speech; Government, Resistance to; Mass media
First sentence: As a director of the U.S. government's ministry of propaganda during World War II, Archibald MacLeish knew that dissent seldom walks onstage to the sound of warm and welcoming applause.