Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War [Paperback]

Now updated with a new preface that examines the current conflict in Iraq, this brilliant work of investigative reporting reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm. John R. MacArthur's engaging and provocative account is as essential and alarming today as when the first paperback edition was published ten years ago.

John R. MacArthuris President and Publisher ofHarper's Magazineand the author ofThe Selling of Free Trade : NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy(California, 2001).Ben H. Bagdikianis Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He is the former assistant managing editor for national news at theWashington Postand is the author of a number of books.