Title: Not Sometime During World War Two...
Product review: If one is lucky enough to come across Terence Qualter's book, one might get the impression that it is out of date. I would like to disagree. "The purpose of propaganda is to control actions by influencing attitudes" (p15). This is true not only of the art in Assyrian palaces, it was true during the Second World War, and is true today. Propaganda is not just lies; during WWII one of the greatest pieces of propaganda that the US had was the publication of US manufacturing. Since it was true, the Axis Powers had no way to refute it. At the same time, courses in propaganda were cancelled in the US because people began to understand the propaganda of their own government.This book explains what propaganda is, how it was developed, and how it was used. Though first written some years ago, it is not just about something sometime during World War Two.
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