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Gary, Brett Joseph. "American Liberalism and the Problem of Propaganda: Scholars, Lawyers, and the War on Words, 1919-1945," Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, August 1992. Advisor: Bruce Kuklick (8, 11, 19)
Organized in three sections, this study first explores how liberals’ fears about political propaganda were fraught with anxieties about the rise of mass society and its challenges to traditional democratic theory. Next, it illustrates the intersection of governmental and academic interests in mass communications, arguing that American communications research was crucial to the state’s capacity for opinion formation. Third, it shows how prewar concerns about Nazi propaganda led to the expansion of the modern national security state, especially the Justice Department’s “propaganda prophylaxis.” Research is based on records of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Archives, and published materials from 1919-1945.
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