I have in my hand a list...of 57 Communists in the State Department.  Or was it 205?  Or 81?  Or was there a list at all?  How documents get their power, from us, even if they don't exist

I have in my hand a list...of 57 Communists in the State Department. Or was it 205? Or 81? Or was there a list at all? How documents get their power, from us, even if they don't exist

31. Joseph McCarthy's "List", 1950

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A look at documents that have had a profound effect on the world. Telling the stories of these information objects, their genesis, contexts, impacts, and fates also tells the story of human society and its never ending evolution.

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