"Living in the Number One Country is social historian Herbert I. Schiller's chronicle of how the communication business transformed and propelled post-World War II American Empire. Schiller infuses elements of his own experience growing up during the Great Depression in New York, as a bureaucrat in the civilian sector of the military occupation forces in Berlin after the war, and as a radical journalist and academic, in arguing that what he first witnessed in Germany - the way it was rebuilt to suit the needs of large-scale capital - served as the prototype for later United States imperialism." "Schiller also traces how the U.S. government has supported corporatized information by pushing American products abroad both through phony pronouncements about "the free-flow of information," and by subsidizing research and development of new technologies."--BOOK JACKET
