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Long ago dubbed the fourth branch of government, the American press remains to most of the general public an inscrutable enterprise whose influence and behavior are alternately welcomed and maligned; yet the proper functioning of a democracy depends upon a media-literate populace to act as the ultimate watchdog. With wit and authority, John Hamilton and George Krimsky lead readers through the whirl of print journalism. They offer a curiosity-satisfying blend of explanation and interpretation, history, anecdotes aplenty, and statistical analysis to show what's wrong and what works with today's newspapers.
The inspiring story of an 18th-century New England slave who emancipated himself
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A moving portrait of the Helsinki Watch, a group organized to attain civil liberties for the 270 million Soviet citizens by demanding adherence to the Helsinki Final Act--a 30,000 word document, which represented a blueprint for a safer, more humane world, signed by the United States, the U.S.S.R., and 33 other nations.