Losing Our Democratic Spirit
Subtitle: Congressional Deliberation and the Dictatorship of Propaganda (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: August 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780275965679
Subjects: Central government; Political structures: democracy; Democracy; Public Opinion And Foreign Policy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Government - Legislative Branch; Government - U.S. Government; History & Theory - General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; International Relations - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Case studies; Political aspects; Propaganda; Rhetoric; United States; War and emergency powers
First sentence: On September 28, 1983, the House of Representatives was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House to deliberate a life and death question: Should the U.S. government continue to place its soldiers' lives at risk as a participant in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon?