Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda

Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American PropagandaDescription By John Maxwell Hamilton Paperback 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

coming through a ‘great national emergency’

politicians

Enoch Crowder

an illustrated diagram

Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panthéon

an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris

this is the story of America’s first sexual revolution

The second part of this book describes international and national campaigns against militarism and war

k armed forces provides valuable information on the materials

they joined the French Foreign Legion

Famed for his crimson-painted Albatros biplanes and Fokker triplanes

Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth