Book ID: CBB000071512

Tainted truth: The manipulation of fact in America (1994)

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Crossen, Cynthia (Author)


Simon & Schuster


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: 272 pp.; notes; index

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Review Karr, A.F. (1995) Review of "Tainted truth: The manipulation of fact in America". American Scientist (pp. 477-78). unapi

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Patriarca, Silvana
Woolf, Stuart J.
Weintraub, E. Roy
Vesentini, Frédéric
Tran, Thao
Shelton, William C.
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