Author: United States. Committee on Public InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Propaganda, German
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The German Whisper
Author: United States. Committee on Public InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Propaganda, German
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
German, Basic Course
Author: United States Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Rambleton
Author: Charles SealsfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Great War, Total War
Author: Roger ChickeringPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521773522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war in light of this concept's implications, in particular the erosion of distinctions between the military and civilian spheres.
Introduction to the American Official Sources for the Economic and Social History of the World War
Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
"List of editors, publishers and plan of series": 18 p. at end. Includes bibliographies.
Holding Fast the Inner Lines
Author: Stephen L. VaughnPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The Committee on Public Information, the major American propaganda agency during World War I, attracted a wide range of reform-oriented men and women who tried to generate enthusiasm for Wilson's international and domestic ideals. Vaughn shows that the CPI encouraged an imperial presidency, urged limits on free speech and called for an almost mystical attachment to the nation, but it also tried to present dispassionately the causes of American intervention in the war. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Manipulating the Masses
Author: John Maxwell HamiltonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807174181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 925
Book Description
Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federal government exercised unprecedented power to shape the views and attitudes of American citizens. Its agent for this was the Committee on Public Information (CPI), established by President Woodrow Wilson one week after the United States entered the war in April 1917. Driven by its fiery chief, George Creel, the CPI reached every crevice of the nation, every day, and extended widely abroad. It established the first national newspaper, made prepackaged news a quotidian aspect of governing, and pioneered the concept of public diplomacy. It spread the Wilson administration’s messages through articles, cartoons, books, and advertisements in newspapers and magazines; through feature films and volunteer Four Minute Men who spoke during intermission; through posters plastered on buildings and along highways; and through pamphlets distributed by the millions. It enlisted the nation’s leading progressive journalists, advertising executives, and artists. It harnessed American universities and their professors to create propaganda and add legitimacy to its mission. Even as Creel insisted that the CPI was a conduit for reliable, fact-based information, the office regularly sanitized news, distorted facts, and played on emotions. Creel extolled transparency but established front organizations. Overseas, the CPI secretly subsidized news organs and bribed journalists. At home, it challenged the loyalty of those who occasionally questioned its tactics. Working closely with federal intelligence agencies eager to sniff out subversives and stifle dissent, the CPI was an accomplice to the Wilson administration’s trampling of civil liberties. Until now, the full story of the CPI has never been told. John Maxwell Hamilton consulted over 150 archival collections in the United States and Europe to write this revealing history, which shows the shortcuts to open, honest debate that even well-meaning propagandists take to bend others to their views. Every element of contemporary government propaganda has antecedents in the CPI. It is the ideal vehicle for understanding the rise of propaganda, its methods of operation, and the threat it poses to democracy.
Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: The Spymaster's Lady
Author: Joanna BournePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101206861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The historical romance that began Joanna Bourne's spectacular spymaster series! She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit.