RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 171287652 LA English T1 The Cold War and the United States Information Agency : American propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945-1989 A1 Cull, Nicholas John., PB Cambridge University Press PP Cambridge; New York YR 2008 SN 9780521819978 0521819970 AB "Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created, in 1953, to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture, and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period."--BOOK JACKET.