Holding Fast the Inner Lines: Democracy, Nationalism, and the Committee on Public Information

by Stephen L. Vaughn

Book Overview

The Committee on Public Information, the major American propaganda agency during World War I, attracted a wide range of reform-oriented men and women who tried to generate enthusiasm for Wilson's international and domestic ideals. Vaughn shows that the CPI encouraged an imperial presidency, urged limits on free speech and called for an almost mystical attachment to the nation, but it also tried to present dispassionately the causes of American intervention...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807898023
• ISBN13: 9780807898024
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"