The First Presidential Communications Agency: Fdr's Office Of Government Reports - Couverture rigide

Lee, Mordecai

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791463591 ISBN 13 : 9780791463598

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2005

Synopsis

The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.

This book explores a forgotten chapter in modern U.S. history: the false dawn of the communications age in American politics. The Office of Government Reports (OGR) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but after World War II Congress refused President Truman's request to continue funding it. OGR proved to be ahead of its time, a predecessor to the now-permanent White House Office of Communications. Mordecai Lee shows how OGR was only one round in the long battle between the executive and legislative branches to be the alpha branch of government. He illustrates how OGR was in the most important sense an effort to institutionalize public reporting. Given the diminished trust in government in the twenty-first century, the study of OGR could act as a model for reviving public reporting as one way to reinvigorate democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mordecai Lee is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His books include See America: The Politics and Administration of Federal Tourism Promotion, 1937-1973; Get Things Moving! FDR, Wayne Coy, and the Office for Emergency Management, 1941-1943; The Philosopher-Lobbyist: John Dewey and the People's Lobby, 1928-1940; and The First Presidential Communications Agency: FDR's Office of Government Reports, all published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791463591
• ISBN 13: 9780791463598
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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