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Record Nr.

UNINA9910165000203321

Autore

Reader Capitol

Titolo

Summary of What Orwell Didn't Know

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cork, : Primento Digital, 2013

ISBN

9782511002896

2511002892

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (21 p.)

Disciplina

303.3

Soggetti

Mass media and propaganda -- United States

Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Politics and the English language

Propaganda -- United States

United States -- Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Book Presentation; Book Abstract; About the Author; Important Note About This Ebook; Summary of What Orwell Didn't Know (Andras Szanto); Introduction; Sloppiness and the English Language; Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power; What Orwell Didn't Know About the Brain, the Mind, and Language; Welcome to the Infotainment Freak Show; Reporters and Rhetoric; What I Didn't Know: Open Society Reconsidered.; Buy the Book; About the Summary Publisher; Copyright

Sommario/riassunto

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Public Affairs books in his book "What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics". This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case the book by Public Affairs books. 18 thinkers examine how Orwell's insights into political language may still hold and also explains what has changed.