Manipulating the Masses

Winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize Winner of the AEJMC History Division Book Award Winner of the AJHA Book of the Year Winner of the Culbert Family Book Prize Manipulating the Masses tells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federal government exercised unprecedented power to shape the views and attitudes of American citizens. Its agent