Language in uniform; a reader on propaganda / Edited by Nick Aaron Ford Morgan State College.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Nick Aaron, compiler.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Propaganda.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 212 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Odyssey Press, Inc., [1967]

Contents:

Introduction. The Nature and Media of Propaganda / William Hummel and Keith Huntress; How to Detect Propaganda / Clyde R. Miller; On Reading Propaganda / E. A. Tenney; Stereotypes / Walter Lippmann

Chapter 1. Political and Economic Discussion. On Liberty / John Stuart Mill; A Modest Proposal / Jonathan Swift; Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau; Neither Blind Obedience Nor Uncivil Disobedience / Sidney Hook; America's Retreat from Victory / Senator Joseph McCarthy; The Constitution versus States Rights / Daniel Webster; The Man with the Hoe / Edwin Markham

Chapter 2. Racial and Religious Considerations. The All-White World of Children's Books / Nancy Larrick; What the Historian Owes the Negro / Benjamin Quarles; Types of Anti-Catholicism / Robert McAfee Brown; The State / Adolph Hitler

Chapter 3. In Pursuit of Educational Goals. Liberty of the Press / John Milton; The Freedom to Read / American Library Association and the American Book Publishers Council; The Nationalistic Bias in History Textbooks / Stephen E. Ambrose; A Letter to Johnny's Mother / Rudolph Flesch; The Tyranny of Multiple-Choice Tests / Banesh Hoffmann; Education and Democracy / Robert M. Hutchins

Chapter 4. Effective Advertising: The Art of Hidden Persuasion. Whispers for Sale; Verbal Advertising / Robert Littell and John J. McCarthy; Forgotten Road to Success in Writing / J. D. Ratcliff; Profiles of Three States / Connecticut Development Commission; Vermont Development Department; North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development; At Last! Instant Relaxation! / Anonymous; That's Why the Rich get Richer / Anonymous; The Story of Whispering Love / Anonymous.

Notes:

Contains Biographical Notes (pages 207-210).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212).

Local Notes:

Van Pelt Collection copy has pages 211-212 lacking.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has label "Compliments of The Odyssey Press, Inc.".

OCLC:

1215348