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BL
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998275
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b752645
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| Main Entry
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Lapham, Lewis H.
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| Title & Author
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Gag rule : : on the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy /\ Lewis H. Lapham.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Penguin Press,, 2004.
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178 pages ;; 20 cm
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| ISBN
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0143035029
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: 1594200173
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: 9780143035022
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: 9781594200175
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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An audible silence -- Gag rule -- Mute button -- Democracy in irons.
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| Abstract
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"Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, so marginalized and muted by a government that recklessly disregards civil liberties, and by an ever more concentrated and profit-driven media in which the safe and the salable sweep all uncomfortable truths from view." "In the midst of the "war on terror"--Which makes the hunt for Communists in the 1950s look, in its clarity of aim and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day - we face a crisis a democracy as serious as any in our history. The Bush administration makes no secret of its contempt for a cowed and largely silenced electorate, and without bothering to conceal its purpose the government coordinates "not the defense of the American citizenry against a foreign enemy but the protection of the American plutocracy from the American democracy.""
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"Gag Rule is a call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right to raise our voices in dissent and have those voices heard."--Jacket.
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Democracy-- United States.
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Freedom of speech-- United States.
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Government, Resistance to-- United States.
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Mass media-- Political aspects-- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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Government, Resistance to-- United States.
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Médias-- Aspect politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.
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Bekämpfung
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Democracy-- United States.
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Democracy.
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États Unis d'Amérique-- Politique et gouvernement.
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Freedom of speech-- United States.
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Freedom of speech.
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Government, Resistance to-- United States.
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Government, Resistance to.
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Liberté d'expression-- États Unis d'Amérique.
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Mass media-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Mass media-- Political aspects.
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Massenmedien
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Médias-- Aspect politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.
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Politics and government
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Redefreiheit
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Résistance politique-- États Unis d'Amérique.
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Terrorismus
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
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United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.
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United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.
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United States, Politics and government, 2001-2009.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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323.44/3/0973
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| LC Classification
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JC599.U5L33 2004
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