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<p><p>In <i>The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953,</i> David F. Krugler examines the troubled existence of the Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government's international shortwave radio agency, following World War II.<p>As tensions with the Soviet Union grew into the Cold War, the U.S. government, under the leadership of President Harry S. Truman, carried out various programs aimed at halting the expansion of communism. The Voice of America, with its legislative mandate to tell the world about the American people and to explain the nation's foreign policies, quickly cast itself as the ideological arm of the new policy of containment, seeking to keep the world informed about the United States while also refuting Soviet international propaganda.<p>Although the VOA was part of the broad-based U.S. anticommunist initiative, it experienced constant problems between 1945 and 1953, including congressional investigations, slashed budgets, canceled transmitter construction projects, and chronic neglect by its operating agency, the State Department, and other national security bodies.<p>Krugler explains that the VOA's troubles, the &quot;domestic propaganda bat

Author

Krugler, David F., 1969-

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826213020

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14