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New At Reason: Brian Doherty Interviews Alan Axelrod About Selling World War I
George
Creel is largely forgotten in American history. He ran the
Committee on Public Information under President Woodrow Wilson
during his second term, spearheading the most comprehensive and
sophisticated program of war propaganda the world had yet known.
Creel has his story told for the first time in over 60 years in the
new book
Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda
by Alan Axelrod.
Senior Editor Brian Doherty interviewed Axelrod, talking about what Creel did and how, why it may have been a mistake, and how it’s unlikely another Creel could achieve what he did.
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Global Importers|7.12.10 @ 2:22AM|#
Creel could achieve what he did
tony|4.3.11 @ 10:37PM|#
world war 4?
ed hardy|4.8.11 @ 4:52AM|#
good article