All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States Since 1870

by James W. Cortada

All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the nation evolved during these fourteen decades. He argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190460679
• ISBN13: 9780190460679
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"