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Kathleen Donohue:
Examining the right to know
Politics
Associate professor of history Kathleen G. Donohue is writing Information Wars: The Public’s Right to Know and the Making of Modern America. Partly funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, this book examines the changing political, cultural, and intellectual influences surrounding the public’s right to know from 1945 to 1990.
Significance
No historian of the 20th century has
examined the history of the public’s right
to know.
What surprised Donohue most
in her research?
“The extent to which this has been a struggle between not just the press and the government, but even more so, the executive and legislative branches of government, and how some of the strongest proponents of the public’s right to know were Senator Joseph McCarthy and other anti-Communists.”
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