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Author Scott, Katherine A. (Katherine Anne)

Title Reining in the state : civil society and Congress in the Vietnam and Watergate eras / Katherine A. Scott.

Publication Info. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  352.235 Sco84r 2013    ---  Available
Description x, 233 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index.
Contents Introduction -- "Recruiting an army" : Russ Wiggins demands transparency -- "What's going on in the Black community?" : Ramsey Clark investigates civil disorder -- "A communist behind every bush" : the Army spies on civilians -- Senator Sam, or, How liberals learned to stop worrying and love a southern segregationist -- It's "poppycock" : Congress challenges executive privilege -- An "effective servant of the public's right to know" : Representative Moorhead revises FOIA -- "Tempers change, times change, public attitudes change" : passing FISA -- Epilogue.
Subject Executive power -- United States.
Transparency in government -- United States.
Separation of powers -- United States.
Civil society -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
ISBN 9780700618972 (alk. paper)
070061897X (alk. paper)
Standard No. 40022115083

 
    
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