Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz

Book Overview

In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats--the essential tool kit for psychological warfare--have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War-era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393881512
• ISBN13: 9780393881516
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"