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Author Schudson, Michael.

Title Watergate in American memory : how we remember, forget, and reconstruct the past / Michael Schudson.

Publication Info. New York : BasicBooks, [1992]
©1992

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.132 SCH78    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  364.132 SCHUDSON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.132 S    Check Shelf
Description xii, 282 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-267) and index.
Contents Versions of Watergate. Thinking with Watergate: constitutional crisis or scandal? ; Revising Watergate: routine or aberration? ; Collective memory and Watergate. -- Watergate in American memory. Memory mobilized: making careers out of Watergate ; Memory contested: reform and the lessons of the past ; Memory mythologized: Watergate and the media ; Memory contained: conventionalizing Watergate ; Memory engrained: post-Watergate political expectations ; Memory ignited: the metaphor of Watergate in Iran-Contra ; Memory besieged: Richard Nixon's campaign for reputation. -- Remembering, forgetting, and reconstructing the past. The resistance of the past.
Subject Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
ISBN 0465090842: $24.00 ($32.00 Can.)
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