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Article: Peters, John Durham and Simonson, Peter (Eds.). Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts 1919 1968.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2007
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Peters, John Durham and Simonson, Peter (Eds.). Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts 1919-1968. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004. Pp. xv, 531. ISBN 0-7425-2838-3 (hbk.) $98.00; 0-7425-2839-1 (pb.) $59.95.
To tilt an isolationist America toward war, Woodrow Wilson created a vast propaganda apparatus that utilized every possible communication channel. Headed by a former muckraking editor, the Committee for Public Information (CPI) enlisted journalists, advertising executives, commercial artists, cartoonists, Hollywood script writers, the foreign language press, and even a speakers' bureau with divisions for black and ...