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Books as weapons : propaganda, publishing, and the battle for global markets in the era of World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hench, John B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda.
Propaganda, American > Europe > History > 20th century.
Propaganda, American > Japan > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Book industries and trade > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Books on the Normandy beaches
  • Modernizing U.S. book publishing
  • War changes everything, even books
  • Publishers organize for war and plan for peace
  • "Books are the most enduring propaganda of all"
  • Seeking "an inside track to the world's bookshelves"
  • "Everyone but the janitor" selected the books
  • Books to pacify and reeducate the enemy
  • Making the "nice little books"
  • Liberating Europe with books
  • The rise and fall of the United States International Book Association
  • The empire strikes back
  • Books for occupied Germany and Japan
  • Epilogue : American books abroad after 1948.