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How we advertised America : [the first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on Public Information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of the globe]

Print Book, English, 2009
General Books, [La Vergne, Tenn.], 2009
279 pages ; 23 cm
9781150449253, 115044925X
681579457
pt. 1. The domestic section. The 'second lines"
The "censorship" bugbear
The "Fourth of July fake"
The Committee's "aircraft lies"
Relations with Congress
The division of news
The four minute men
The fight for the mind of mankind
The battle of the films
The "battle of the fences"
The war expositions
The speaking division
The advertising division
The "Americanizers"
Work among the foreign-born
A wonderful Fourth of July
The "Official bulletin"
Division of women's war-work
Other divisions
Showing America to the foreign press
pt. 2. The foreign section. The fight in foreign countries
America's world news service
The foreign mail service
Fighting with films
Breaking through the enemy censorship
France, England, and Italy
The work in Mexico
The work in Switzerland
The work in Holland
The work in Spain
The work in Scandinavia
The work in the Orient
The work in South America
The Russian campaign
pt. 3. Demobilization. After the Armistice
"Americanizing" Mittel Europa
Confusion and neglect
Appendix. The American Newspaper Publishers' Association
"Savagery" vs. sanity
Publications of the Committee on Public Information in the United States
Facsimile reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1920 ; 23 cm