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The Voice Of America: Propaganda And Democracy, 1941-1945

Holly Cowan Shulman
Reviewed by By William G. Hyland
Summer 1991
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Holly Cowan Shulman
University of Wisconsin Press
1991
282 pp.
$37.50

An excellent account of how commercial broadcasting and advertising techniques were applied to American radio transmissions to Germany and France, and a valuable contribution to the early history of an important aspect of foreign policy. Shulman captures the personalities, creative improvisation and democratic convictions of the time.

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