Archives and the public good accountability and records in modern society / edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace.

Other author Cox, Richard J.
Other author Wallace, David A., 1961-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Quorum Books,
Descriptionvi, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents Machine generated contents note: Explanation -- Archives on Trial: The Strange Case of the Martin Luther King, Jr, Papers -- James M. O'Toole -- "A Monumental Blunder": The Destruction of Records on Nazi War Criminals in Canada -- Terry Cook -- Information for Accountability Workshops: Their Role in Promoting Access to Information -- Kimberly Barata, Piers Cain, Dawn Routledge, andJustus Wamukoya -- Secrecy -- Implausible Deniability: The Politics of Documents in the Iran-Contra Affair and Its Investigations -- David A. Wallace -- The Failure of Federal Records Management: The IRS versus a Democratic Society -- Shelley Davis -- Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection -- Robin L. Chandler and Susan Storch -- Memory -- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Politics of Memory -- Tywanna Whorley -- Turning History into Justice: The National Archives and Records Administration and Holocaust-Era Assets, 1996-2001 -- Greg BradSher -- "They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the South African State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994 -- Verne Harris -- Trying to Write "Comprehensive and Accurate" History of the Foreign Relations of the United States: An Archival Perspective -- Anne Van Camp -- Trust -- What You Get Is Not What You See: Forgery and the Corruption of Recordkeeping Systems -- David B. Gracy II -- The Jamaican Financial Crisis: Accounting for the Collapse of Jamaica's Indigenous Commercial Banks -- Victoria L. Lemieux -- The Anchors of Community Trust and Academic Liberty: The Fabrikant Affair -- Barbara L. Craig -- Records and the Public Interest: The "Heiner Affair" in Queensland, Australia -- Chris Hurley.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2001057863
ISBN1567204694 (alk. paper)

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