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The Spectacle of History : Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings /

How is history produced? How do individuals write--or rewrite--their parts while engaged in the production of history? Michael Lynch and David Bogen take the example of the Iran-contra hearings to explore these questions. These hearings, held in 1987 by the Joint House-Senate Select Committee on Sec...

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Autores principales: Lynch, Michael, 1948- (Autor), Bogen, David, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
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