All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870

All the Facts: A History of Information in the United States since 1870 by Cortada, James W.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780190460679.

This is the first national history of the role of information in the United States, from the 1870s to the present. It explores the use of information in the private and public sectors, and in the private lives of Americans. It argues that this role of information was as important in shaping the United States as the settling of the West, the creation of a nation out of immigrants, and its democracy.