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Gag rule : on the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy / Lewis H. Lapham.
- Title
- Gag rule : on the suppression of dissent and the stifling of democracy / Lewis H. Lapham.
- Author
- Lapham, Lewis H.
- Publication
- New York : The Penguin Press, 2004.
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- Description
- 178 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "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.""
- "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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- An audible silence -- Gag rule -- Mute button -- Democracy in irons.
- ISBN
- 1594200173
- LCCN
- ^^2004040044
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library