Description
Book SynopsisTraces the history of American fears of and attempts to combat propaganda through World War II and up to the Cold War. This book explores how following World War I the social sciences - especially political science and the field of mass communications - identified propaganda as the object of urgent "scientific" study.
Table of Contents1. Dangerous Words and Images: Propaganda's Threat to Democracy 2. Harold D. Lasswell and the Scientific Study of Propaganda 3. Mobilizing for the War on Words: The Rockefeller Foundation, Communication Scholars, and the State 4. Mobilizing the Intellectual Arsenal of Democracy: Archibald MacLeish and the Library of Congress 5. The Justice Department and the Problem of Propaganda 6. Justice at War: Silencing Foreign Agents and Native Fascists
