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Research Note: Recent Books on U.S. Government Propaganda

January 4, 2010
By Kevin R. Kosar

Should government serve the people?  Or should people serve government?  Or should people serve government so that government may serve the people?  One enters this philosophical thicket whenever one speaks of government propaganda. I’ve caught word of these recent books on the topic, and hereby add them on my to-read list. (1) James J....
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Fiction: John Grisham, The Associate (2009).

Non-Fiction: Todd Kliman, The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine (2010).

Non-Fiction: Kathryn A. Jacob, King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age (2010).

Non-Fiction: Philip Terzian, Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (2010).

Fiction: David Lodge, Thinks (2001)

Non-Fiction: Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition (2010)

Non-Fiction: Christopher Buckley, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir (2009)

Non-Fiction: Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster (2007)

Fiction: John Le Carre A Most Wanted Man (2008)

Fiction: John Le Carre Our Game (1995)

Fiction: John Le Carre The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Into Your Tent I'll Creep (1971)

Fiction: Peter DeVries Peckham's Marbles (1986)

Fiction: Georges Simenon Three Beds in Manhattan (1964)

Fiction: Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1988)