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The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings
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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 Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media spectacle and a rare chance to see a struggle over the writing of history. There was Oliver North, prime suspect and designated scapegoat, turning into a hero of the American Right before the very eyes of the nation. How this ... Read more
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 Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaragua Opposition, provided the nation with a media spectacle and a rare chance to see a struggle over the writing of history. There was Oliver North, prime suspect and designated scapegoat, turning into a hero of the American Right before the very eyes of the nation. How this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822317388
SKU
V9780822317388
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About Bogen
Michael Lynch is Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at Brunel University, Middlesex. David Bogen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emerson College.
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