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

by John Maxwell Hamilton

Book Overview

Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize by the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807181714
• ISBN13: 9780807181713
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"