Karp, Walter (1934–1989)

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55-63	July 1989 Article All the congressmen's men: How Capitol Hill controls the press By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Government and the press; 1945-1989; Press and politics; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
30-33	July 1988 Readings/Article Uncle Miltie v. mass man By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Mass media; Propaganda; Television PDF IMAGES
41-49	May 1988 Article In defense of politics By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Historiography; Political science; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
45-56	February 1988 Article Reviewing the book By Joe Conason, Daniel Schorr, Walter Karp, Leslie Cockburn, and Sam Dash SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive privilege (Government information); Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Legislative hearings; Political corruption; Reagan, Ronald; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
39-51	February 1986 Article [Untitled Article] By Theodore R. Sizer, Walter Karp, Mark Danner, Ernest L. Boyer, Albert Shanker, Floretta Dukes McKenzie, A. Graham Down, and Dennis Littky SEE ALSO: Educational change; Educational law and legislation; Educational tests and measurements; Standards PDF IMAGES
53-67	November 1985 Article Liberty under siege: The Reagan Administration's taste for autocracy By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive departments; Executive power; Government and the press; Government information; 1981-1989; Portraits; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
69-73	June 1985 Article Why Johnny can't think: The politics of bad schooling By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: A place called school (Book); Gross, Beatrice; Ravitch, Diane; Boyer, Ernest L.; High school: a report on secondary education in America (Book); Horace's compromise: the dilemma of the American high school (Book); Bunzel, John H.; Goodlad, John I.; Public schools; Gross, Ronald; Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara; The challenge to American schools (Book); The good high school (Book); The great school debate: which way for American education? (Book); The troubled crusade: American education 1945-1980 (Book); Sizer, Theodore R. PDF IMAGES
20-21	April 1985 Readings/Article Westmoreland: CBS fall guy By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Mass media and the conflict; Military leadership; Trials (Libel); Trials, litigation, etc.; Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs) PDF IMAGES
37-51	January 1985 Article [Untitled Article] By Tom Wicker, Frances FitzGerald, Walter Karp, Sidney Zion, Herbert Schmertz, and Charles Rembar SEE ALSO: Freedom of the press; Journalistic ethics; Press; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
28	September 1984 Readings/Article Only the fearful know television By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
51-60	July 1984 Article Playing politics: Why the Democratic bosses conspired with Reagan, and do not care if they lose in November By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Career in politics; The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; Political leadership; Power (Social sciences); Thurmond, Strom PDF IMAGES
26-28	April 1984 Readings/Article Bowdlerizing the Saturday cartoon By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Child development; Plots, themes, etc.; Television programs for children PDF IMAGES
30-36	October 1981 Article Coolidge redux: Making the world safe for plutocracy By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: 1981-1993; Reagan, Ronald; Special prosecutors; Views on economic policy PDF IMAGES
80-82	March 1981 Revisions/Article The two thousand years' war: Thucydides in the cold war By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Cold War; Greece; Thucydides; Views on Peloponnesian War PDF IMAGES
27-34	July 1979 Article Republican virtues: At odds with the cult of the nation By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Nationalism; Patriotism; Republicanism; War and society PDF IMAGES

80-88	May 1980 Books/Review Textbook America: The teaching of history By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: America revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century (Book); FitzGerald, Frances PDF IMAGES
90-96	November 1979 Books/Review The constructs of a conservative: At odds with the republic By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Confessions of a conservative (Book); Conservatism; Wills, Garry; 1945-1989; Portraits PDF IMAGES
84-90	September 1978 Books/Review RFK enshrined By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Biography; Kennedy, Robert F.; Robert Kennedy and his times (Book) PDF IMAGES

81	September 1985 Letter [Untitled Letter] In response to “Why Johnny can't think: The politics of bad schooling ” from June 1985 By Walter Karp IMAGES
5	December 1981 Letter [Untitled Letter] In response to “Coolidge redux: Making the world safe for plutocracy ” from October 1981 By Walter Karp IMAGES
6	August 1980 Letter [Untitled Letter] In response to “Textbook America: The teaching of history ” from May 1980 By Walter Karp IMAGES
4	September 1979 Letter [Untitled Letter] In response to “Republican virtues: At odds with the cult of the nation ” from July 1979 By Walter Karp IMAGES
8	November 1978 Letter [Untitled Letter] In response to “RFK enshrined” from September 1978 By Walter Karp IMAGES

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9-11	August 2003 Notebook/Article Yankee Doodle Dandy By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Bush, George W.; Imperialism; Politics and war; Politics of war (Book); Karp, Walter; McKinley, William; Wilson, Woodrow PDF IMAGES
8-12	October 1989 Notebook/Article Walter Karp (1934-1989) By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Obituaries; Periodical editors; Political and social views; Karp, Walter PDF IMAGES

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