Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945 (Inscribed) - Calder, Robert L.

INSCRIPTION FROM ROBERT CALDER on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; small tear with crease to upper back inside corner of dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; Robert Calder demonstrates that Britain's well-organized propaganda campaign to persuade the United States to enter WWI had left isolationist and anglophobic Americans highly suspicious of anything that hinted of manipulation. Any effort to influence American public opinion during WWII had therefore to be carefully and subtly undertaken, Using newly uncovered archival material, Calder offers provocative new insights into the war work of more than forty prominent British authors, focusing particularly on Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward, H.G. Wells, Vera Brittain, and J.B. Priestley. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the suspicions beneath the wartime Anglo-American alliance and describes the tensions that arose between the British Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office over the nature and direction of the propaganda campaign in the United States.
Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Hardcover
McGill-Queen's University Press
2004
Montreal, QC