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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808764603321

Autore

Preston William <1924->

Titolo

Hope & folly : the United States and Unesco, 1945-1985 / / William Preston, Jr., Edward S. Herman, and Herbert I. Schiller ; preface by Sean MacBride ; introduction by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap ; manuscript produced by the Institute for Media Analysis, Inc., New York, New York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1989

ISBN

0-8166-5580-4

0-8166-1789-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 367 pages)

Collana

Media & society ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

HermanEdward S

SchillerHerbert I. <1919->

Disciplina

341.7/67

Soggetti

Press - United States - Influence

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; THE HISTORY OF U.S.-UNESCO RELATIONS; U.S. MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM UNESCO; IS THERE A UNITED STATES INFORMATION POLICY?; APPENDIXES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Created in a burst of idealism after World War II, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) existed for forty years in a state of troubled yet often successful collaboration with one of its founders and benefactors, the United States. In 1980, UNESCO adopted the report of a commission that surveyed and criticized the dominanc