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Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty

Contributor(s): Carey, Alex (Author), Lohrey, Andrew (Editor), Chomsky, Noam (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9780252066160

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Pub Date: December 1, 1996

Dewey: 322.30973

LCCN: 96020817

Lexile Code: 1450

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.73" H x 8.98" L x 6.01" W ( 0.80 lbs) 240 pages

Series: The History of Media and Communication

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Description: Alex Carey documents the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses, and its export to and adoption by Western democracies like the United Kingdom and Australia. The collection, drawn from Carey's voluminous unpublished writings, examines how and why the business elite successfully sold its values and perspectives to the rest of society.

Review Quotes: "A uniquely important work on the 'ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy.'"--Noam Chomsky

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