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By Martin J. Manning, Herbert Romerstein

From the French and Indian battle in 1754, with Benjamin Franklin's sign up for or Die sketch, to the current struggle in Iraq, propaganda has performed an important position in American heritage. The old Dictionary of yankee Propaganda offers greater than 350 entries, focusing totally on propaganda created via the U.S. govt all through its lifestyles. experts, one a long-time learn librarian on the U.S. details business enterprise (the USIA) and the kingdom Department's Bureau of international relations, and the opposite a former USIA Soviet Disinformation Officer, Martin J. Manning and Herbert Romerstein convey a profound wisdom of professional U.S. propaganda to this reference paintings. The dictionary is extra enriched by way of a considerable bibliography, together with motion pictures and movies, and a very good annotated record of greater than one zero five specific collections all over the world that include fabric very important to the examine of U.S. propaganda.

Students, researchers, librarians, school, and basic readers will locate the Historical Dictionary of yank Propaganda an authoritative ready-reference paintings for speedy details on a variety of occasions, guides, media, humans, govt corporations, govt plans, enterprises, and emblems that supplied mechanisms to advertise America's pursuits, either in another country and locally, in peace and in struggle. just about all entries finish with feedback for extra learn, and the topically prepared bibliography presents another finished directory of vital assets, together with motion pictures and videos.

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Rockefeller as the coordinator, to counter Nazi propaganda in the American Republics. 1941 (January 6)—Four Freedoms speech by President Roosevelt published as pamphlet by Office of War Information and translated into four very popular pictures by artist Norman Rockwell for 1942 Saturday Evening Post covers. S. government as home front propaganda during World War II to sell war bonds and as inspiration for a 1943 symphony, Four Freedoms, by Robert Russell Bennett. 1941 (April 19)— Fight for Freedom Committee established to arouse the American people into fighting Hitler.

1982 (January 31)—Expensive USIA TV production Let Poland be Poland, hosted by Frank Sinatra, was televised on January 31 to support Polish people under martial law. Fifteen world leaders, among them British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, came together to offer courage and concern. J. Resolution 382, Congress allowed the film to be shown in the United States. 1982—Soviet Propaganda Alert, a monthly publication based on information transmitted by USIA officers abroad, issued to expose Soviet disinformation around the world.

1898 (February 9)—Letter by Enrique Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister to the United States, to a friend in Havana that criticized President McKinley as "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd"; the letter was published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal (February 9, 1898). The publication of the letter ignited public opinion toward future Cuban intervention. 1898 (February 15)—USS Maine sunk at Havana; war declared on Spain. "Remember the Maine" introduced as rallying cry to American people along with short films that stirred Americans to patriotic fervor for the brief military conflict, such as "The Spanish-American War" and "Tearing Down the American Flag," the first commercial war movie.

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