John B. Hench, Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War II (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010). The publisher describes it thus: Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising cargo—crates of books—joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and...
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Speech-less tells an all-too-familiar tale—an idealistic twenty-something comes to DC to work for the government and ends up disillusioned. Matt Latimer grew up in a humble town in Michigan, the son of two committed liberal Democrats. He caught the fever for conservatism, which included a philia for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson. A clever chap,...
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Should government serve the people? Or should people serve government? Or should people serve government so that government may serve the people? One enters this philosophical thicket whenever one speaks of government propaganda. I’ve caught word of these recent books on the topic, and hereby add them on my to-read list. (1) James J....
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