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Author Preston, William, 1924-

Title Hope & folly : the United States and Unesco, 1945-1985 / William Preston, Jr., Edward S. Herman, and Herbert I. Schiller ; preface by Seán MacBride ; introduction by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap ; manuscript produced by the Institute for Media Analysis, Inc., New York, New York
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 367 pages)
Series Media & society ; [3]
Media & society ; 3.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-358) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Unesco -- United States
Unesco -- Press coverage -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Unesco fast
Subject Press -- United States -- Influence
LAW -- International.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Diplomatic relations
Press coverage
Press -- Influence
UNESCO.
Massamedia.
Berichtgeving.
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1981-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140105
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Herman, Edward S.
Schiller, Herbert I., 1919-2000
Institute for Media Analysis.
ISBN 9780816617890
0816617899
9780816655809
0816655804
Other Titles Hope and folly