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Title Archives and the public good : accountability and records in modern society / editors, Richard J. Cox, David A. Wallace.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books
Creation Date 2002
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Introduction
EXPLANATION
Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers
"A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada
Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information
SECRECY
Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran- Contra Affair and Its Investigations
The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society
Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection
MEMORY
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust- Era Assets, 1996- 2001
"They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990- 1994
Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective
TRUST
What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems
The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair
Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Extent 1 online resource (vi, 340 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702871305171
MARC RECORDS
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