| The First Presidential Communications Agency: Fdr's Office of Government Reports Contributor(s): Lee, Mordecai (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791463591 ISBN-13: 9780791463598 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: This book explores a forgotten chapter in modern U.S. history: the false dawn of the communications age in American politics. The Office of Government Reports (OGR) was created in 1939 by president Franklin D. Roosevelt, but after World War II Congress refused President Truman's request to continue funding it. OGR proved to be ahead of its time, a predecessor to the now-permanent White House Office of Communications. Mordecai Lee shows how OGR was only one round in the long battle between the executive and legislative branches to be the alpha branch of government. He illustrates how OGR was in the most important sense an effort to institutionalize public reporting. Given the diminished trust in government in the twenty-first century, the study of OGR could act as a model for reviving public reporting as one way to reinvigorate democracy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | American Government - Executive Branch - Political Science | American Government - National |
| Dewey: 352.232 |
| LCCN: 2004045402 |
| Series: Suny the Presidency: Contemporary Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.14" W x 8.96" (1.16 lbs) 295 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores a forgotten chapter in modern U.S. history: the false dawn of the communications age in American politics. The Office of Government Reports (OGR) was created in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, but after World War II Congress refused President Truman's request to continue funding it. OGR proved to be ahead of its time, a predecessor to the now-permanent White House Office of Communications. Mordecai Lee shows how OGR was only one round in the long battle between the executive and legislative branches to be the alpha branch of government. He illustrates how OGR was in the most important sense an effort to institutionalize public reporting. Given the diminished trust in government in the twenty-first century, the study of OGR could act as a model for reviving public reporting as one way to reinvigorate democracy. |