title: Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present
author: Nicholas J. Cull
description: This work has been designed as an easily readable survey of propaganda and its history from 1500 to the present. An extensive introduction defines propaganda and traces its origins, concluding with a discussion of the importance of propaganda in the twentieth century and the increasing prominence given to it. The introduction also notes that, although propaganda often serves to "dictate what one should think," it is not necessarily evil.
zlib_text: N I C H O L A S OF CUSA AND 
  MEDIEVAL P O L I T I C A L 
  T H O U G H T 
  H A R V A R D 
  P O L I T I C A L 
  S T U D I E S 
  Published under the direction 
  of the Department of Government 
  in Harvard University 
  
  N I C H O L A S 
  O F 
  C U S A 
  Detail from the memorial in the church 
  of St. Peter in Chains, Rome. 
  
  NICHOLAS OF CUSA 
  AND MEDIEVAL 
  POLITICAL THOUGHT 
  PAUL E. SIGMUND 
  H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y 
  PRESS 
  C A M B R I D G E , 
  M A S S A C H U S E T T S 
  · 
  1 9 6 3 
  
  © Copyright, 1963, by the 
  President and Fellows of Harvard College 
  All rights reserved 
  Distributed in Great Britain by 
  Oxford University Press, London 
  Publication of this book 
  has been aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-20772 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  
  T O J O S E F 
  K O C H 
  
  P R E F A C E 
  Τ Η Ε A U T H O R was first attracted to the study 
  of the political thought of Nicholas of Cusa because the 
  standard histories of political thought 