The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Newsman Who Battled for the Minds of America Arsenault Mark
The shocking history of the espionage and infiltration of American media during WWI and the man who exposed it. A man who was not who he seemed...Russia was not the first foreign power to influence…
Specifikacia The Imposter's War: The Press, Propaganda, and the Newsman Who Battled for the Minds of America Arsenault Mark
The shocking history of the espionage and infiltration of American media during WWI and the man who exposed it. A man who was not who he seemed...Russia was not the first foreign power to influence American popular opinion from the inside. In the lead-up to America's entry into the First World War, Germany spent the modern equivalent of one billion dollars to infiltrate American media, industry, and government in order to undermine the supply chain of the Allied forces. If not for the ceaseless activity of John Revelstoke Rathom, editor of the scrappy Providence Journal, America may have remained committed to its position of neutrality. But he emerged to galvanize American will, creating the conditions necessary for President Wilson to request a Declaration of War from Congress--all the while expelling German diplomats and exposing sensational plots along the way.