Propaganda Techniques in World War

Author: Harold Lasswell (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The author of this book analyzes the propaganda strategies and their effects of major belligerent countries such as the UK, France, Germany, and the USA in the first "total war" of humankind with a value-neutral attitude, in a comprehensive and highly rational manner. Just a few years after the end of World War II, the author of this book analyzed the propaganda strategies and their effects of major belligerent countries such as the UK, France, Germany, and the USA in the first "total war" of humankind with a value-neutral attitude, in a comprehensive and highly rational manner. The revelation of wartime propaganda filled with lies and deception initially caused panic among scholars and the public. Critics called it a "Machiavellian textbook" and urged its immediate destruction. Today, history has given it the immortal status of a seminal work in American communication studies.