Gag Rule : On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
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- Synopsis
- From one of America's most important voices of protest, an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent—the lifeblood of our democracy—at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation, somarginalized 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 selling sweep all uncomfortable truths from view. In the midst of the "war on terror"—which makes the hunt for communists in the 1950's look, in its clarity of aim and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day—we face a crisis of 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 oligarchy from the American democracy." Gag Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right to raise our voices in dissent.
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781101190753
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780143035022
- Publisher:
- Penguin Group US
- Date of Addition:
- 11/24/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Lewis H. Lapham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.