Author: Horten, Gerd
Title: Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2002). orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,218 pp. 14pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Radio and the Privatization of War; Radio News, Propaganda, and Politics During World War II; Radio News, Propaganda, and Politics: From the New Deal to World War II; Uneasy Persuasion: Government Radio Propaganda 1941-1943; Closing Ranks: Propaganda, Politics, and Domestic Foreign-Language Radio; Selling the War to the American People: Radio Entertainment and Advertising; 'Radio Propaganda Must Be Painless': the Comedians Go to War; 'Twenty Million Women Can't Be Wrong': Wartime Soap Operas; Epilogue: The Privatization of America.

Keywords: American Mass Communication, Political History, Radio, Broadcasting, United States, Propaganda, Politics, Communications, Media