U.S. government publication
Subtitle: ideological development and institutional politics from the founding to 1970
By: John Spencer Walters.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: United States. Government Printing Office.; Printing, Public -- United States -- History.; Government publications -- Publishing -- United States.; Government information -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ideological heritage; title: An informing function consummated; title: Toward an ideological underpinning; title: Institutional tensions; title: Toy presses and the rise of fugitive U.S. government documents; title: Heretical impulses : the push for a clearinghouse; title: The republic of federal scientific publication : the not-so-public domain.