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<p>Legendary Wild Bill Donovan, CIA directors Allen Dulles and William Casey, journalists Stewart Alsop and James Reston, diplomat John McCloy, philanthropist Paul Mellon, playwright Robert Sherwood, theatrical great John Houseman, and civil rights leader Ralph Bunche were among the thousands of people who led or participated in America's massive propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany. In <I>The Propaganda Warriors</I> Clayton Laurie fully unveils for the first time this unprecedented, ambitious, and embattled wartime enterprise.<P>Laurie details the creation, evolution, and field operations of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information (OWI); the Morale Operations Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); and the Army-dominated Psychological Warfare units (PWB and PWD) serving the Allied forces in Europe. These agencies, Laurie shows, were as much at war with each other as with the Third Reich, largely due to FDR's failure to establish an official propaganda policy or to enunciate precise war and postwar aims. Within this vacuum, each agency eagerly developed its own distinct form of propaganda.<P> The propagandists at OWI and OSS (forerunner of the CIA) were e

Author

Laurie, Clayton D. (Clayton David), 1954-

Publisher

Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700607655

Subjects

History, Humanities