{"id":1360,"date":"2010-06-03T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T23:38:20","slug":"research-note-a-new-book-on-u-s-government-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/research-note-a-new-book-on-u-s-government-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Note: A New Book on U.S. Government Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 142px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0801448913\/alcoholreviewsco\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hench-Books-As-Weapons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/jacket\/hench.books.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Cornell University Press<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John B. Hench, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0801448913\/alcoholreviewsco\"><em>Books as Weapons: Propaganda, Publishing, and the Battle for  Global Markets in the Era of World War II<\/em><\/a> (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University  Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5643\">publisher describes it thus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only weeks after the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, a surprising  cargo\u2014crates of books\u2014joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons  and ammunition, food, and medicine onto Normandy beaches. The books were  destined for French bookshops, to be followed by millions more American  books (in translation but also in English) ultimately distributed  throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The British were doing  similar work, which was uneasily coordinated with that of the Americans  within the Psychological Warfare Division of General Eisenhower&#8217;s  Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force, under General  Eisenhower&#8217;s command.<\/p>\n<p>Books As Weapons tells the little-known  story of the vital partnership between American book publishers and the  U.S. government to put carefully selected recent books highlighting  American history and values into the hands of civilians liberated from  Axis forces. The government desired to use books to help &#8220;disintoxicate&#8221;  the minds of these people from the Nazi and Japanese propaganda and  censorship machines and to win their friendship. This objective  dovetailed perfectly with U.S. publishers&#8217; ambitions to find new profits  in international markets, which had been dominated by Britain, France,  and Germany before their book trades were devastated by the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014crates of books\u2014joined the flood of troop reinforcements, weapons and ammunition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-lW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}