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What Orwell didn't know : propaganda and the new face of American politics / edited by Andras Szanto ; with an introduction by Orville Schell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: PublicAffairs reportsPublication details: New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxi, 236 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781586485603 (pbk.)
  • 1586485601 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.3/750973
LOC classification:
  • HM 1231 W555 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Editor's note / Andras Szanto -- Introduction: Follies of orthodoxy / Orville Schell -- Orwell then and now / David Rieff -- The limits of language / Nicholas Lemann -- Words in a tome of war : on rhetoric, truth, and power / Mark Danner -- An egregious collocation of vocables / Patricia J. Williams -- Freedom, liberty, and rights : three cautionary tales / Aryeh Neier -- Sloppiness and the English language / Francine Prose -- What Orwell didn't know about the brain, the mind, and language / George Lakoff -- The new frontier : the instruments of emotion / Drew Westen -- Stellar spin / Frances FitzGerald -- Bad knowledge / Alice O'Connor -- Black and white, or gray : a Polish conundrum / Konstanty Gebert -- After the Falwellians / Susan Harding -- Welcome to the infotainment freak show / Martin Kaplan -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stay the couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds : but what about big media? / Victor Navasky -- Reporters and rhetoric / Geoffrey Cowan -- Lessons from the war zone / Farnaz Fassihi -- Our own thought police / Michael Massing -- Epilogue: What I didn't know : open society reconsidered / George Soros -- Appendix: Politics and the English language / George Orwell.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HM 1231 W555 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000105739

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-229).

Editor's note / Andras Szanto -- Introduction: Follies of orthodoxy / Orville Schell -- Orwell then and now / David Rieff -- The limits of language / Nicholas Lemann -- Words in a tome of war : on rhetoric, truth, and power / Mark Danner -- An egregious collocation of vocables / Patricia J. Williams -- Freedom, liberty, and rights : three cautionary tales / Aryeh Neier -- Sloppiness and the English language / Francine Prose -- What Orwell didn't know about the brain, the mind, and language / George Lakoff -- The new frontier : the instruments of emotion / Drew Westen -- Stellar spin / Frances FitzGerald -- Bad knowledge / Alice O'Connor -- Black and white, or gray : a Polish conundrum / Konstanty Gebert -- After the Falwellians / Susan Harding -- Welcome to the infotainment freak show / Martin Kaplan -- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night will stay the couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds : but what about big media? / Victor Navasky -- Reporters and rhetoric / Geoffrey Cowan -- Lessons from the war zone / Farnaz Fassihi -- Our own thought police / Michael Massing -- Epilogue: What I didn't know : open society reconsidered / George Soros -- Appendix: Politics and the English language / George Orwell.

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