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

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

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" selecte...

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1. Verfasser: Hench, John B. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY u.a. Cornell Univ. Press 2010
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda > Propaganda, American > History > Publishers and publishing > Book industries and trade > Japan > Deutschland > USA > Verleger > Buchhandel > Zweiter Weltkrieg > Geschichte 1941-1950
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Zusammenfassung: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.
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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVIII, 333 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780801448911
978-0-8014-4891-1