{"product_id":"the-nervous-liberals-9780231113656","title":"The Nervous Liberals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400199774551,"sku":"9780231113656","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nervous-liberals-9780231113656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}