The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953
The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battles, 1945-1953

Author: David F. Krugler

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780826213020

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Examines the troubled existence of the Voice of America (VOA), the US government's international shortwave radio agency, following WWII. Explains that the VOA's troubles, including slashed budgets, canceled projects, and neglect by its operating agency, were the results of rivalries that shaped American politics during these years, especially the Republican drive to roll back the New Deal, the ongoing contest between conservative members of Congress and the Truman administration, and disputes over the VOA's proper purposes. Krugler teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Voice of America
Voice of America

Author: Alan L. Heil, Jr.

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2003-06-25

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9780231501620

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The Voice of America is the nation's largest publicly funded broadcasting network, reaching more than 90 million people worldwide in over forty languages. Since it first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, VOA has undergo

Inventing Public Diplomacy
Inventing Public Diplomacy

Author: Wilson P. Dizard

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781588262882

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Public diplomacy - the uncertain art of winning public support abroad for one's government and its foreign policies - constitutes a critical instrument of U.S. policy in the wake of the Bush administration's recent military interventions and its renunciation of widely accepted international accords. Wilson Dizard Jr. offers the first comprehensive account of public diplomacy's evolution within the U.S. foreign policy establishment, ranging from World War II to the present. Dizard focuses on the U.S. Information Agency and its precursor, the Office of War Information. Tracing the political ups and downs determining the agency's trajectory, he highlights its instrumental role in creating the policy and programs underpinning today's public diplomacy, as well as the people involved. The USIA was shut down in 1999, but it left an important legacy of what works and what doesn't in presenting U.S. policies and values to the rest of the world. Inventing Public Diplomacy is an unparalleled history of U.S. efforts at organized international propaganda.