Propaganda Techniques in World War I (Contemporary World Academic Classics, Translation Series of Journalism and Communication, Master Classics Series)

Author: Harold Lasswell
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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 US in the first "total war" of human history from a value-neutral perspective, in a comprehensive and highly rational manner. Just a few years after the end of World War I, the author of this book analyzed the propaganda strategies and their effects of major belligerent countries such as the UK, France, Germany, and the US in the first "total war" of human history from a value-neutral perspective, 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 "it should be destroyed immediately." Today, history has granted it the immortal status of a seminal work in American communication studies.