Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
The U.S. Office of War Information and American Public Opinion During World War II, 1939 - 1945
Author: The American Experience in World War II: The United States and the road to war in Europe
Author: Walter L. HixsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415940290
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The U.S. Office of War Information and American public opinion during World War II, 1935-1945
Author: David Lloyd JonesIn Time of War
Author: Adam J. BerinskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Berinsky argues that public responses to war in the U.S. are shaped by the same political interests & group affiliations that influence opinions on domestic issues.
The Marketing of World War II in the US, 1939-1946
Author: Albert N. GrecoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030395197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans who were incredulous and horrified about the attack at Pearl Harbor. Americans wanted immediate and detailed information from the US government and the nation’s media and entertainment companies about the recent military disasters. This book analyzes the complex relationships between the US government and the entire media and entertainment industries between 1939 and 1946. The US government realized in early 1942 that it needed to forge an alliance with the media and entertainment industries to create and maintain support for the war. The Office of War Information (OWI) was the US government agency acting as the liaison between Washington and the diverse media and entertainment industries; and all of them confronted a series of major issues and concerns to convince Americans to support the war effort. This book offers business historians an examination of the complex and sometimes tense relationships between the OWI and the radio, magazine, newspaper, and motion picture industries.
Miscellaneous Publications on American Public Opinion During World War II
Author: Survey Research in the United States
Author: Jean M. ConversePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351487418
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Hardly an American today escapes being polled or surveyed or sampled. In this illuminating history, Jean Converse shows how survey research came to be perhaps the single most important development in twentieth-century social science. Everyone interested in survey methods and public opinion, including social scientists in many fi elds, will find this volume a major resource.Converse traces the beginnings of survey research in the practical worlds of politics and business, where elite groups sought information so as to infl uence mass democratic publics and markets. During the Depression and World War II, the federal government played a major role in developing surveys on a national scale. In the 1940s certain key individuals with academic connections and experience in polling, business, or government research brought surveys into academic life. By the 1960s, what was initially viewed with suspicion had achieved a measure of scientific acceptance of survey research.The author draws upon a wealth of material in archives, interviews, and published work to trace the origins of the early organizations (the Bureau of Applied Social Research, the National Opinion Research Center, and the Survey Research Center of Michigan), and to capture the perspectives of front-line fi gures such as Paul Lazarsfeld, George Gallup, Elmo Roper, and Rensis Likert. She writes with sensitivity and style, revealing how academic survey research, along with its commercial and political cousins, came of age in the United States.
Enemy Images in American History
Author: Ragnhild Fiebig-von HasePublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571810311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Domestic Operations of the Office of War Information in World War II.
Author: LaMar Seal MackayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publicity
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Before The Bomb
Author: John ChappellPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813193540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Almost forgotten in the haze of events that followed Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witnessed an intense public debate over how best to end the war against Japan. Weary of fighting, the American people were determined to defeat the imperial power that had so viciously attacked them in December 1941, but they were uncertain of the best means to accomplish this goal. Certain of victory—the "inevitable triumph" promised by Franklin Roosevelt immediately after Pearl Harbor—Americans became increasingly concerned about the human cost of defeating Japan. Particularly after the brutal Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns, syndicated columnists, newspaper editorialists, radio commentators, and others questioned the necessity of invasion. A lengthy naval and aerial siege would have saved lives but might have protracted the war beyond the public's patience. Advertisers filled the media with visions of postwar affluence even as the government was exhorting its citizens to remain dedicated to the war effort. There was heated discussion as well about the morality of firebombing Japanese cities and of using poison gas and other agents of chemical warfare. Chappell provides a balanced assessment of all these debates, grounding his observations in a wealth of primary sources. He also discusses the role of racism, the demand for unconditional surrender, and the government's reaction to public opinion in the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Compelling and controversial, this is the first work to examine the confusing and contradictory climate of the American home front in the months leading up to V-J Day.