Living in the Number One Country: Reflections from a Critic of American Empire

by Herbert Irving Schiller

Book Overview

Living in the Number One Country is Herbert I. Schiller's chronicle of the symbiotic relationship between post-WWII American Empire and the substance and technology of the communications businesses. Schiller traces how the State has supported corporatized information by pushing their products abroad both through phony pronouncements about "the free-flow of information," and by subsidizing research and development for new technologies. Schiller's refreshing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583220283
• ISBN13: 9781583220283
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"