By Martin J. Manning, Herbert Romerstein
ISBN-10: 0313296057
ISBN-13: 9780313296055
From the French and Indian conflict in 1754, with Benjamin Franklin's subscribe to or Die caricature, to the current warfare in Iraq, propaganda has performed an important position in American heritage. The old Dictionary of yank Propaganda presents greater than 350 entries, focusing totally on propaganda created by means of the U.S. govt all through its life. experts, one a long-time examine librarian on the U.S. details corporation (the USIA) and the country Department's Bureau of international relations, and the opposite a former USIA Soviet Disinformation Officer, Martin J. Manning and Herbert Romerstein carry a profound wisdom of reliable U.S. propaganda to this reference paintings. The dictionary is extra enriched by way of a considerable bibliography, together with movies and video clips, and a superb annotated record of greater than one hundred and five distinctive collections all over the world that comprise fabric vital to the examine of U.S. propaganda.
Students, researchers, librarians, school, and basic readers will locate the Historical Dictionary of yankee Propaganda an authoritative ready-reference paintings for fast details on quite a lot of occasions, guides, media, humans, govt organizations, govt plans, firms, and emblems that supplied mechanisms to advertise America's pursuits, either in a foreign country and regionally, in peace and in battle. just about all entries finish with feedback for additional study, and the topically prepared bibliography presents yet another accomplished directory of significant assets, together with movies and videos.
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1930s—New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt (inaugurated March 4, 1933). Federal arts programs created to offer government patronage to the arts placed in four projects (for Chronology of Important Events in American Propaganda xxxvn visual artists, theater workers, musicians, and writers), established in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). S. Congress planned to establish a committee to investigate Communist propaganda. Shortly before it was formed, the New York City police department received copies of a set of documents purporting to be letters from the Communist International instructing Amtorg to carry out Communist propaganda in the United States.
It ended in 1991. 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.
S. Ambassador to Austria during the Reagan administration. S. Embassy letterhead and was designed to be insulting to American neutrality. After Viennese newspapers received copies, the Austrian Defense Ministry exposed it as a forgery. 1985—Afghan Media Project, a Reagan administration initiative funded by USIA but administered through Boston University's School of Media and Communications, was appropriated $500,000 from Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-88) to focus world attention on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; it included VOA broadcasts and editorials, publications, and TV programs distributed by USIA.
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