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Secrecy: The American Experience

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ISBN10: 0300080794
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From a senior U.S. senator comes this fascinating and critically acclaimed account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I.

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An account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American governance since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it.
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ISBN:
9780300080797
Subtitle:
The American Experience
Introduction:
Powers, Richard Gid
Author:
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Author:
Powers, Richard Gid
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Public Affairs & Administration
Subject:
U.S. Government
Subject:
Secrecy (law)
Subject:
General Political Science
Subject:
Government - U.S. Government
Publication Date:
November 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
7.94x5.06x.82 in. .73 lbs.
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