A Righteous Smokescreen

A Righteous Smokescreen
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780226816081
ISBN-13 : 0226816087
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Book Synopsis A Righteous Smokescreen by : Sam Lebovic

Download or read book A Righteous Smokescreen written by Sam Lebovic and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the years immediately after World War II, the United States broadcast to the world not just its power but its values. Sam Lebovic here focuses on one of those professed ideals: the free flow of information. That trope became a proxy for America's special brand of imperial democracy, and it both abetted and constituted the spread of American culture and values worldwide. By studying visa and passport policy, funding for educational exchange and school construction, the purchase of land for embassies, the rights of international correspondents, and other mundane matters, Lebovic reveals globalization as a consequence of "quotidian world-ordering," not of high-minded abstractions like liberal internationalism"--


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