Not For Sale
December 27, 2002
The State Department’s new offering for the perusal of the Arab world is an anthology called “Writers on America.” The book, featuring the musings of such literary figures as Michael Chabon, Julia Alvarez and Robert Pinsky, is officially propaganda, published explicitly to influence foreign audiences. It is also therefore, by the terms of the Smith-Mundt Act, unpublishable here in the U.S. The anthology’s executive editor, George Clack, speaks to OTM.
