The rise of the right to know
Subtitle: politics and the culture of transparency, 1945-1975
By: Michael Schudson
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780674744059
Subjects: Freedom of information; Transparency in government; History; Consumer protection; Environmental impact statements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A cultural right to know; title: Origins of the Freedom of Information Act; title: The consumer's right to be informed; title: Opening up Congress; title: The media's presence; title: "To let people know in time"; title: Transparency in a transformed democracy; title: Disclosure and its discontents.